In fact the universe doesn't owe us anything at all. (Not unless you are clueless, gullible, brain-dead or a biggest idiot.)

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Some people get lucky. Some people don’t. It's just simple as that ! Some people always manage to see the positive. Some people don’t. Some people have nothing and are happy. Some people have everything and will never be happy. And most of us sit somewhere in between.
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It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.

And never ask a gambler or a punter that too !!

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time.

In my opinion, most of the current "great men" are only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

In my opinion, most of the current "great men" are only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.