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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Man
Though
See
Shall
He
Invisible
Sharply
Look
Blind
She
Fortune
Therefore
Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez
Before
Thousand
Surprised
Spun
Wheel
Turns
Fortune
Twists
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
You
Tomorrow
Everyday
Count
Refrain
Going
Happen
Gain
Asking
Fortune
Grants
Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.
Jay Samit
Journey
Business
Reality
Overcome
Will
Big
Dream
Only
Pursue
Entrepreneurs
Had
Shared
Idea
Concept
Always
Built
Discovered
Big Idea
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Begin
Them
Customers
Flaws
Next
Product
Fortune
Awaits
Believing
Funding
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
Jim Hightower
Day
Me
You
Problem
Agriculture
Other
Small
Make
Boy
Got
Still
Little
Fortune
Large
Start
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne
Wise
Made
Fools
Seeing
Could
She
Make
Them
Fortune
Lucky
Chance
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Virtue
We Cannot
Attribute
Without
Achieved
Cannot
Either
Which
Fortune
The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
Nostradamus
God
Good
Nature
Knowledge
Events
Inspiration
Prophetic
Perfect
Divine
Prime
Since
Force
Without
Motivating
Cannot
Acquired
Then
Fortune
Creator
Good Fortune
Receives
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
Blessing
Mind
Visible
Consists
Unseen
Outward
Felicity
Inward
Riches
Fortune
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
Work
Man
Sun
Sight
Unable
Willing
Find
Saddest
Perhaps
Inequality
Fortune
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
Men
Power
Trees
Winds
Blast
Most
Tallest
Ambitious
Fortune
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare
Good
Woman
Gear
She
Well
Fortune
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.
Wole Soyinka
Capitalism
Face
Seen
Worst
Seeing
Misfortune
Had
Masses
Alternative
Africa
Disgusted
Want
Anywhere
Fortune
Nigeria
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie
Mistake
World
Islam
Control
Arabia
Give
Throne
Put
West
Oil
Which
Them
Then
Used
Fortune
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant
Training
Political
Previous
Misfortune
Executive
Without
Chief
Chief Executive
Office
Any
Fortune
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
Women
People
World
Too Many People
Random
First
Too
Filtered
Papa
Alive
OK
About
Having
Lawyers
Feel
Know
House
Wrote
Him
Passage
Am
Still
Were
Been
Surviving
Want
Wanted
Custodian
Fortune
Many
Hemingway
Now
Away
The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
Adhir Kalyan
Future
Me
Waiting
Lie
Opportunities
Opportunity
Will
Become
Few
Else
Bit
Those
Someone
Something
More
Always
Greatly
Them
Inhabit
Fortune
Fascinated
Actor
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain de Botton
Respect
People
Otherwise
Secure
Would
Seek
Through
Attention
Look
Greater
Than
May
Straight
Us
Fortune
Reason
Who
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
Time
Me
Age
Three
Lying
Fluently
Books
Misfortune
Had
Knew
Learn
Read
How
Were
Hit
Grade
Maybe
Teachers
Fortune
Starting
By The Time
I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.
Allison Tolman
Past
Dreaming
About
Something
Point
Never
Had
Gotten
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Anticipating
Where
Really
Acted
Certainly
Fortune
Full-Time
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
World
Pay
Luck
Too
Other
Run
Favors
Some
Gives
Never
She
Empty
Tight
Go
Sells
Form
Them
Far
Interfere
Fortune
Rein
Away
Her
Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.
Amy Morin
Positive
Good
You
Confused
World
Mind
Somewhere
Power
Think
Thinking
Enough
Positive Thinking
Striking
Positively
Magical
Seems
Prevent
Deliver
Along
Make
Line
Been
Tragedy
Happen
Anything
Your
Notion
Fortune
Using
Good Fortune
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
Andrew Tobias
Finance
Me
Would
More
Nobody
Campaign
Campaign Finance
Campaign Finance Reform
Than
Reform
Wants
Fortune
Save
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.
Ann Dowd
Work
Good
Grateful
Wonderful
Out
Know
Look
Accounts
Fortune
Who
Actor
Good Fortune
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
Anna Held
Work
Seven
Married
Must
Somehow
Years
Get
Manage
Get Married
Want
After
Next
Fortune
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
Anna Held
Work
Woman
Age
Before
Married
Must
She
Make
Get
Get Married
After
Fortune
Her
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