There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed–thereafter, their lives could only get better.
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Brandon Sanderson
Luck often sides with the able.
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R.A.Delmonico
It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.
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Justin Taylor
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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Terry Pratchett
Well, good luck, ’ the Vietnam verbal tic.. It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from saying it, even when they actually meant to express the opposite wish, like, ‘Die, motherfucker.’ Usually it was only an uninhabited passage of dead language, sometimes it came...
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Michael Herr
More Quotes By James A. Garfield
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
