“Quize is a luck game.
If you are lucky enough, you will win.
It would be fair if they would let everyone answer to the same question.”
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Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor
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“What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that.”
Cory Booker (1969) 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
Quoting his mother, in [Ray, Elaine, Cory Booker encourages students to use their moral imaginations to work for good, https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2016/02/24/cory-booker-encourages-students-to-use-their-moral-imaginations-to-work-for-good/, Stanford University, 21 August 2018, February 24, 2016], as quoted in [Ross, Janell, Six noteworthy things about Cory Booker, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/six-noteworthy-things-about-cory-booker/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8842f22736b9, 21 August 2018, The Washington Post, July 25, 2016]
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Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Variant: But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation
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Theodore Sturgeon book Venus Plus X
Source: Venus Plus X (1960), Section 13 (p. 40)
“(In answer to the question ‘How would you describe yourself in three words?’) Short and balding.”
Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD
“You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 38