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“Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” quote by John Dewey — Download Open image

“Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.”

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