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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Some Folk Want Their Luck Buttered.

Thomas Hardy
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. as they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. they don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. there is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. if you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. but it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.
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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. we wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. a folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. a folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. it depends on who's playing and who's listening.
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Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. no, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. the term "folk singer" has gotten warped.
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Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- it made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; but sev'ral years ago i changt my mind, an' now proclaim that luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. there was only oneself to praise or blame. luck was a servant and not a master. luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. but it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. and luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared
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When i started 70 odd years ago i was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. i've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. it's all luck.
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