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Their presence in the consultation suite is a result of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

I also had the good fortune to be in those lectures, up in the balcony.

Next is by a Lithuanian fortune teller, Jurgi Petrauskas.

And here, by great fortune, one of my father's clients had a husband who worked at the Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research.

My first app was a unique fortune teller called "Earth Fortune" that would display different colors of Earth depending on what your fortune was.

And this is of a student of mine named Joseph who I had the good fortune to work with for three years in my lab.

So in 2004, during my surgical residency, I had the great fortune to meet Dr. Roger Tsien, who went on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2008.

I had the good fortune to go to Disney Animation and study over 900 scientists, artists, storytellers, computer scientists as they teamed up in constantly changing configurations to create amazing outcomes like "Frozen."

And we need to be able to build this thing using simple manufacturing techniques and factories that don't cost us a fortune.

CA: So how many passengers can possibly afford the fortune of flying by space?

I'll spend a fortune on it.

Who is going to inherit his name and his fortune?

Our technologies are great gifts, and we, right now, have the great good fortune to be living at a time when digital technology is flourishing, when it is broadening and deepening and becoming more profound all around the world.

So I have had the good fortune for the past 20 years to study these fascinating and beautiful mammals.

It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.

And this was my fortune: "You will be successful in your work."

CA: Reed, you signed the Giving Pledge a few years ago, you're committed to giving away more than half of your fortune during your lifetime.

People would say, "Did you hear the joke about the guy who made a small fortune in the space industry?"

And so I tell people, well, I was trying to figure out the fastest way to turn a large fortune into a small one.

You bet your fortune on it, and you seem to have done that multiple times.

I would be less mindful of time and of death, and, oh, I would not be disabled, would not suffer the thousand slings and arrows of my fortune.

I wished to tell him that, in the end, our mandate is clear: We have to rise above bad fortune.

I started my training in Paris, as a student, where I also had the good fortune of meeting my wife, Astrid, who I convinced to come to Peru, to make our dream come true: a small restaurant, a nice restaurant that would support our family.

And I hold this penny in the palm of my hand, and it's sticky and rusty, but it feels like I'm holding a fortune.

So the pharmaceutical industry, which I am personally very interested in because I've actually had the fortune to study it in quite some depth, is wonderful to be asking this question about the revolutionary versus non-revolutionary bits, because each and every medicine can actually be divided up on whether it really is revolutionary or incremental.

OK, now, that sounds like something you get on a Chinese fortune cookie, right?

They cost a fortune.

Whatever is unfortunate in war, is severely so indeed, and whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune, is a savage and a cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe.

CA: Well, speaking of Warren Buffett, something really amazing happened in 2006, when somehow your only real rival for richest person in America suddenly turned around and agreed to give 80 percent of his fortune to your foundation.

Prior to going to prison, I didn't know that there were so many brilliant black poets, authors and philosophers, and then I had the great fortune of encountering Malcolm X's autobiography, and it shattered every stereotype I had about myself.

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