#fortune

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. ↗

— Eden Phillpotts

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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. ↗

— Rob Portman

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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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I believe in America. America's made my fortune. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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