"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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On Apr 23, 10:15 pm, " wrote:
On Apr 23, 6:28 pm, F. George McDuffee gmcduf...@mcduffee-
associates.us

I am not so much referring to winning the lottery, as being
lucky enough to be in the right place, at the right time,
with the required set of talents, skills and knowledge.

In too many cases people confuse the relative importance of
being lucky (including being born to the right parents) with
being smart/exceptional.

Unka George (George McDuffee)

I always found the more I learned and the harder I worked, the luckier
I was.

Dan

"Lucky" is a socialist code word for undeserving, used to rationalize
confiscation.

If you hit the lottery, you can send the money to me so you won't have to
revisit your (mis)understanding of "lucky."

I have my own version: Wresting the controls out of the hands of my glider
"instructor" as he was about to stall our Schweitzer 2-33 into a pile of
concrete rubble that looked like a WWII tank trap, from 50 feet, and having
his hand slip off of the stick as I pushed the nose down -- because he
outweighed me by about 100 pounds.

I was lucky that he sweats. It probably was life and death. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress