#fortune

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. ↗

— J.S. Bryan

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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. ↗

— Harry Browne

#career choice #choice #government #into #misfortune