"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." — Seneca the Younger

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• War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
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• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius
• There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. — Marcus Aurelius
• It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
• You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with… — Paul Auster
• When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going… — Lauren Bacall
• A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell

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