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Re:How Not to Explain Success by wildmusings on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:00PM (#11799317)
"Fortune favors the bold."
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Re:How Not to Explain Success by TheOtherHobbes on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:08AM (#11800376)
Fortune favours the fortunate - and sends out journalists to interview some of them.
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Re:How Not to Explain Success by DrScump on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:10AM (#11800378)
Only the successful bold are remembered by history.
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Re:How Not to Explain Success by drauh on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:04AM (#11799652)
"But the world remembers only bold successes, aka history is written by the victors." --me
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Re:How Not to Explain Success by ArkyBeagle on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:45AM (#11801823)
More like "misfortune filters the bold." As in "There are bold bikers, there are old bikers, but there are no old, bold bikers."
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