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Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.

— Robert Charles Wilson Axis (2007)

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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

Darwinia (1998)

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

Spin (2005)

Strange, isn’t it, how people cling most desperately to a thing when it becomes least useful to them?

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

Vortex (2011)

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

Horace Satires (-35)

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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