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“It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.”

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Book:Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

Source: Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.”

Men May Certain Passion Circumstances Miserable Fortunate Temper

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances.”

Should Circumstances Appreciate Fortunate Appreciate You

Author:Daryl Hannah

“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.”

“If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.”

Ifs May Facts Father Century Circumstances Training Advantage Fortunate Accomplished Quarters Quarter Of A Century

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”

Thinking I Can Self States Remember House Easy Space White Forget United Cities United States Circumstances Office Window Fortunate White House Self Contained

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.”

Lying Talent Circumstances Difficulty Fortunate Dormant

Author:Horace

“Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.”

Knows Men May Use Opportunity Wise Circumstances Fortune Crowds Fortunate Vigorous Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Frederick Douglass

“What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Able Social Causes Clear Changed Circumstances Gay Perception Woods Fortunate Happy Life Inherent Norm Being Gay

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.”

World Wells Country Young Used Spirit Parent Can Do Poor Circumstances Blessed Despite Used To Be Fortunate Korea Poorest Being Blessed

Author:Lee Myung-bak