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«Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.»
«Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians»
«The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public»
Author: Chamfort | About: Books | Keywords: affinity, due to, The Author
«There?s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn?t say, ?I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.?»
«The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe (Editor, Essayist, Novelist) | About: Trouble | Keywords: due, due to, not due
«The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.»
«Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.»
«The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Grammar | Keywords: due to, grammar
«Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.»
«There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and intelligence can change a yellow blot into the sun.»

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