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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. (Quote by - Ausonius)

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. (Quote by - Michael Chabon)

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. (Quote by - Hans Kung)

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process. (Quote by - Wietse Venema)

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. (Quote by - Hans Urs von Balthasar)

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. (Quote by - Rick Larsen)

Chance favors the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)

It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. (Quote by - Shannyn Sossamon)

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. (Quote by - George Washington)

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. (Quote by - J. Reuben Clark)

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

Men are never attached to you by favours. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. (Quote by - Plautus)

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. (Quote by - Syrus)

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. (Quote by - Mother Jones)

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. (Quote by - Agnes Macphail)

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors. (Quote by - Esther Dyson)

Fortune, that favors fools. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)

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