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Christopher Hitchens - [George W Bush] is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things
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Adolf Hitler - What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Unknown - Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Unknown - "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Rothschild - Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Douglas Jerrold - Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

John Dewey - Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Thomas Carlyle - It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Unknown - Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Andrew W. Mathis - It is bad luck to be superstitious.

W. B. Yeats - Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

Richter cartoon caption - Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

Seneca - Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower - The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

Sylvia Plath - I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Mexican Proverb - He who does not venture has no luck.

Irish Proverb - Good luck beats early rising.

Persian Proverb - Go and wake up your luck.

Harry Golden - The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Langston Coleman - Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Douglas Gerald - Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

Joesph Heller - In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

American Proverb - Diligence is the mother of good luck.

James A. Garfield - A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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