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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
Source: unknown
Topics/Tags: Luck; Blessing; Moderation; Sacrifice
He worked by day
And toiled by night.
He gave up play
And some delight.
Dry books he read,
New things to learn.
And forged ahead
Success to earn.
He plodded on
With faith and pluck.
And when he won
Others called it "luck."
Source: "Bits & Pieces," Vol. R, #5.
The British Journal of Medicine reported that, in Japan, superstitious beliefs are not only faulty, they're costly as well.
Researchers reported that more hospital patients were discharged on Taian (a lucky day in Japanese culture) than on any other day. The fewest were discharged on the unlucky day Batsumetsu.
Additionally, a large number of patients deliberately extend their hospital stays, in order to be discharged on Taian. The cost to the hospital? Over 7 million yen per year.
Source: Homelife, 7/1999, p. 11.
Topics/Tags: Superstition; Luck
According to that prodigious writer Isaac Asimov, there is a horseshoe fixed on the wall above the desk of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. It has its open end up in the traditional way to catch good luck and hold it safely for the horseshoe's owner.
An American scientist visiting Bohr in Copenhagen asked him, "Surely a levelheaded scientist like you, Professor Bohr, can't possibly believe that a horseshoe will bring you luck?"
Chuckling, Bohr replied, "I believe no such thing, not at all. How could I give credence to such an absurd idea? However, I am told that a horseshoe WILL bring you luck, whether you 'believe' it or not…"
Source: Bob Monkhouse, "The Complete Speaker's Handbook"
Topics/Tags: Belief; Luck; Absolutes; Superstition
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