Allyson Olsten

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“I’m not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some sort of way.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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“the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

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“if we at the FBI started to think like every other partisan in Washington thought—what’s good for my “side” or whose political futures we might help or hurt—then the FBI would no longer have, and would no longer deserve, the public trust.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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“Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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“Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either born lucky or you’re not, though the only way to know for sure is to test it. The problem with that is most people find out they’re not lucky at the worst possible moment, usually in the throes of death or arrest.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

tags: born-lucky, fate, luck, lucky, unlucky

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