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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Aaron Allston

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
AARON ALLSTON

Fingernail Hanging Large Luck Way
Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho
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Achieve Antilles Biography General Tycho Victory Want
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.
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Rogue Run Running Unless Wraith
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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Awful Difference Something Tragedy
That was interesting.” “He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.” “He was furtive.” “Sneaky, even.” “We’ll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet.” Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
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Countermanded Furtive Interesting Order Sneaky Style
When all else fails, complicate matters
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Else Fail Failing Matter When
I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Content Feet Tradition Wipe
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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Fierce First Incompetent Lawyer
The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
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Doctor Frankenstein Good New Friendship Thing
Life is like an analogy.
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Analogies Life Positive
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?
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Domain God Hack Server Tampered
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you’ve constructed an entire philosophy of evil.” –Luke Skywalker
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Evil Justify Mean Philosophy Time
Luke, I don’t want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.” Mara
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Curiosity Exception Something Want Way Wrong
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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Bomb Father Hate Kill Story Wedge
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.” “You haven’t heard all our ideas.” Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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Generation Heard Idea Sound Thousand Worst
No one pays me to be nice.
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Nice One Liner Pay Positive

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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