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Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:03 pm
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Found a nice collection of quotes about luck. Since most 2p games end with at least one player accusing the other of getting lucky, I think these quotes will serve well.

Whatever your view on the importance of luck in GM, there is something here for you:

* "Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold." - Yiddish Proverb.
* "Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within." - Danish proverb
* "Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth." - Arab Proverb
* "You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky." - Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar named desire
* "Luck never gives; it only lends." - Proverb.
* "Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him." - German Proverb.
* "Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap." - Danish proverb
* "No gulls, no luck." - French Proverb.
* "Luck has much for many, but enough for no one." - Danish proverb
* "Every dog has his day in luck." - Japanese Proverb.
* "Go and wake up your luck." - Persian Proverb.
* "When God throws the dice are loaded." - Greek Proverb.
* "No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck" - German proverb.
* "Luck never made a man wise." - Seneca
* "Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish." - Ovid.
* "If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" - Stanislaw J. Lec
* "Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck." - George S. Clason
* "Do you feel lucky?" - Clint Eastwood
* "Good luck has its storms." - George Lucas.
* "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" - Jean Cocteau
* "Diligence is the mother of good luck." - Benjamin Franklin.
* "Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness." - Democritus
* "Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "The champion makes his own luck." - Red Blaik.
* "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them." - P.J. O'Rourke
* "Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck." - Orson Welles
* "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." - E.B. White
* "Shallow men believe in luck." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." - Ray Kroc
* "I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get." - Sam Shoen
* "All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it." - Robert Collier
* "Everything in life is luck." - Donald Trump
* "There is no such thing as luck." - from "Star Wars"
* "Luck's always to blame." - Jean de la Fontaine.
* "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - President Thomas Jefferson
* "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." - R. E. Shay.
* "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." - Wilson Mizner
* "Luck is not a factor." - Lindsay Brigman from "The Abyss" (1989)
* "Fortune favours the bold." - Terence 190-159 BC.
* "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." - William Shakespeare.
* "Good luck needs no explanation." - Shirley Temple Black.
* "God does not play dice with the universe" - Albert Einstein.
* "Luck is not chance-
It's Toil-
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned-" - Emily Dickinson.
* "Fortune always will confer an aura
Of worth, unworthily; and in this world
The lucky person passes for a genius." - Euripedes
* "Some folk want their luck buttered." - Thomas Hardy

Songs About Luck and their Singers

"With a Little Luck" - Paul McCartney; "I should be so lucky" - Kylie Minogue; "Luck Be a Lady" - Frank Sinatra; "Lucky Star" - Madonna.
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:00 pm
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MrCrabbs wrote :
* "Luck never gives; it only lends." - Proverb.

It s Swedish Proverb
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:42 pm
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Nice thread crabbs,

I believe you make your own luck, and chance favours the prepared mind.
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:39 pm
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Thanks Judd, I tend to agree with you there.
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:13 am
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what you both said is utter bs.......the system does favour one player in 2p

no matter what i buy . the other player seems to skip it.

i can own both pink and green or dark blue and red,,,but go to jail as the other player is about to hit me. most games lately i go to jail around 10/13 times. the other person may go 3/4 max but never when i am about to hit, usually after i have paid

so i disagree strongly with your opinions

and dont bother to reply fingerbang ...i say random rolls are bs as well
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:29 pm
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So, aussie.

Do you have any idea why it is only you who "always" gets bad luck? Maybe you are looking for it, and ignoring the good?

I would love to see a statistical analysis of aussie's games in particular. She has been playing so long it is practically impossible that she would have the consistently bad luck she complains of.
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:00 am
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i lost that game where i bought pink from you...that were fully upgraded ..ended up 3rd ... even blacks beat me...yellow kiilled me, hit it almost every lap

according to me if rolls were random i wouldnt hit yellow (same square) almost every lap
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Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:24 am
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ill tell you what is bad luck

in a 4player game ,
i own the greens FULLY upgraded
NOONE lands on them for 8 passes,

so thats a possibility of 24 posible lands at maximum (not accounting for double 1 lands) and didnt get a single land.

that is bad luck,

but hey ho, life goes on
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:08 am
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Aussie, I think you suffer from something called "Galactic Magnate Paranoia". It's quite common in people who blame their loses on bad luck rather then bad play.
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:28 am
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:18 am
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fingerbang i have only 2 words to say to you and i think you know what they are
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Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:01 am
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Sorry Fingerbang?

Thanks for the apology Aussie...
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Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:58 pm
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fingerbang wrote:
Sorry Fingerbang?

Thanks for the apology Aussie...


LOL

I would rather prefer to give the same 2 words practically to her Cool


Hey fingerbang wanna game this sunday? Lets see whose luck is better
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:09 am
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ditto to you too fort
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:54 pm
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MrCrabbs wrote:
Found a nice collection of quotes about luck. Since most 2p games end with at least one player accusing the other of getting lucky,



This game is not based on luck.........this is completely obvious b/c when you're loosing the opponent hardly ever lands on your monopolies and you always land on theirs. Also, when you're loosing and theres a galactic meltdown the oppenent lands on jail much more often..... all of this is blatently obvious and annoying but at least it helps prevent the games from dragging on forever when one player has no chance of winning
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