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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
Good
Trial
More
Excessive
Never
Than
Fortune
Moment
Good Fortune
Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Linda Colley
Good
Confidence
Think
Possessed
Franklin
Conspicuous
Bestow
Only
Individuals
Proved
Historically
Privilege
Often
Roosevelt
Fortune
Good Fortune
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Lionel Richie
Conversation
People
Station
About
Like
Fame
Just
Hold
Fortune
Gas
Gas Station
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Livy
Result
Brave
Fortune
Helps
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Livy
Men
Wish
She
Withstand
Blinds
Does
Them
Fortune
Her
Violence
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Work
God
Man
Conflict
Evil
Own
Gaze
Sight
Worthy
Direct
Attention
Equal
Matched
His
Brave
Brave Man
May
Behold
Which
Turning
Fortune
Thing
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Good
Down
Earth
Bad
Faces
Heads
Heads Down
Bows
Up
Heaven
Turns
Fortune
Good Fortune
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
God
Nature
Fate
Names
Call
Fortune
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great
Mind
Great Mind
Becomes
Fortune
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
Luke Goss
Faith
Believe
Medium
Unseen
He
Healer
Always
Encouraged
Grandfather
Fortune
Providing career growth and development opportunities for our people is of paramount importance, and that's why we surround and support our diverse employee team with investments in innovation, technology, training, and a wide variety of programs so they can build great careers. 'Fortune' saw that in KPMG, and we're delighted.
Lynne Doughtie
Great
Technology
Innovation
People
Training
Opportunities
Build
Programs
Our
Saw
Our People
Paramount
Diverse
Variety
Delighted
Investments
Support
Development
Employee
Importance
Providing
Surround
Fortune
Team
Why
Growth
Wide
Wide Variety
Career
Careers
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Own
Admire
My Own
Never
Another
Became
Much
Fortune
Dissatisfied
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Too Much
Too
Enough
Gives
None
Much
Fortune
Many
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
Mark Haddon
World
Events
Three
Year
Later
Responds
Hostage
Look
Because
Years
Very
Different
Fiction
Fortune
Momentous
Recent
Two
To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
Mark Walter
Work
You
Change
Down
Frank
Head
Just
Really
Successful
Your
Fortune
Moments
Belief
Keep
I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
Marquis de Lafayette
Friendship
Time
Good
Experience
Good And Evil
Evil
Soldiers
Dangers
Having
Both
Shared
Arises
Officers
American
Which
Length
Them
Fortune
Sufferings
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Me
Rights
Happy
Nation
Resolve
Rigid
Moral
Civil
Only
Recover
Feel
Firmness
She
Principles
Years
Repeating
Duties
Fidelity
Them
Warrant
Fortune
Twenty-Five
Sufficient
Her
Here
Preserve
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Martin Lewis Perl
Depression
War
Good
Youth
Years
Child
Fortune
Good Fortune
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.
Matthew Gray Gubler
Thankful
Time
Good
Guilty
Unbelievable
Somehow
Exceptional
Exceptionally
Had
Feel
Talented
Got
Juilliard
Friends
Same
Graduates
Just
Same Time
Break
Fortunate
Fortune
Who
Many
Lucky
Actor
Good Fortune
Amount
A thing hard to track is Fortune.
Menander
Track
Hard
Fortune
Thing
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
Michael Apted
Time
Good
You
About
Joined
Hot
Firmly
Crying
Very
Want
Place
Which
Asleep
Fortune
Good Fortune
Things
Start
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
Michael Heisley
Money
Made
Distressed
Around
Built
Up
Did
Quite
Bankrupt
Them
Turning
Fortune
Companies
Eventually
Started
Career
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
Good
Me
Hopeless
Build
Preserves
Way
Markets
See
Some
Directly
Had
Development
Makes
How
Optimist
Articles
Land
Farmers
Fortune
Products
Helped
Good Fortune
Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Would
Angeles
Pursued
Had
Sure
Los
Los Angeles
Fortune
Film
Career
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
Michelle Obama
Life
Work
Service
Fight
President
Everyone
Our
Ourselves
Record
Someone
Give
Chase
Children
Want
Form
Public
Succeed
Fortune
Public Service
Shows
Whose
Chance
When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
Michelle Ryan
Fitness
Reality
Videos
Down
Earned
Sexy
Absolute
Could
Calendars
Always
Left
Shoots
Lads
Them
Reality Shows
Turned
Fortune
Shows
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