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"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does." »Bill Vaughan
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"Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of fortune come to thee?" »Omar Khayyam
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"Our banking system is like a bunch of kids stealing from the cookie jar, and when the central bankers are questioned about it, they lie, or they say they're doing it for our own good - and then we keep putting cookies in the jar - and keep allowing them to steal - when all that's really happening is they're getting a free snack on us. They don't even have to be on their best behavior to get the treat!" »John Rocco Savalli
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"I have often thought that the cause of men?s good or ill fortune depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times. A man having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that it may be well for him to act differently, whence it is that a man?s fortune varies, because she changes her times and he does not his ways." »Machiavelli
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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth." »Saadi
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"Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also fortune favors the bold." »Virgil
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"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." »Sallust
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"Every one is the architect of his own fortune." »Mathurin Regnier
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." »Honore' de Balzac
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"fortune is a giver and a taker." »Polish Proverb
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"fortune does not change men, it unmasks them." »Suzanne Necker
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"fortune helps the brave." »Terence
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"fortune favors the brave." »Virgil
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"fortune favors the bold." »Virgil
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"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct." »Publilius Syrus
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." »Mae West
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"I have always believed that all things depended upon fortune, and nothing upon ourselves." »George Gordon Byron
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"Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan
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"Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune." »Cleobulus
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"He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan
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"fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." »Laurence J. Peter
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"fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." »Goethe
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"Always accept good fortune with grace and humility." »Mark L. Mika
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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune." »Lewis Lew Wallace
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"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change." »Euripides
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