#fortune

Misfortune was my god. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#misfortune

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#being #black #blood #capitalism #dearly

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ↗

— William McFee

#doing #ever #guarantee #misfortune #people

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

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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 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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