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“Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.”
“They can only kill us once.”
“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.”
“Fortune favours the bold.”
“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.”
“Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.”
“You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.”
“Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.”
“You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.”
“Luck is the residue of design.”
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.”
“Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.”
“Luck is being ready for the chance.”
“Chance usually favors the prudent man.”
“Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.”
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
“Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.”
“Let us be today’s Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today’s church. With Christ’s light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plund...”
“The devil's happy when the critics run you off.”
