Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Luck Hard work

Author

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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I am condemned to be free.

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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

Another quote about Hard work

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

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Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

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Anthony Trollope
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

Another quote from 1940

When you wish upon a star,
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires will come to you.

Pinocchio

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Jiminy Cricket
Actor
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When You Wish Upon a Star Pinocchio
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

"When You Wish Upon a Star." Pinocchio. Composed by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, performed by Cliff Edwards. Walt Disney Productions, 1940.