"Luck is the residue of design." -- Branch Rickey
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again," Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. "But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck."
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.” -- Robert Heinlein
Lets keep this party polite
Never get out of my sight
Stick with me baby, I'm the guy that you came in with
Luck be a lady tonight
-- Frank Loesser
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? -- Harry Callahan
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Those of us who didn't vote for the Bumbler in Chief have had a run of bad luck for almost three years. The President has had a case of homesick chickens.
The Heinlein quote, from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, is one of my favorites and I've used it a few times lately. Here's another that seems to fit the times:
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, and I had to look this one up because I couldn't remember it in its entirety:
"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck." - Joseph Heller
Obama is full of shit. Am I clear?
Yeah, Dan. I think I got it. :)
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