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Gary Graff • Illustration • • 8 views
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
On October 10, 2010—101010—more than 32,000 couples said their marriage vows. That is 6 times the usual daily number. The last time that many weddings occurred in one day was July 7, 2007. People consider these lucky days on which to begin a marriage. --The Week, October 22, 2010, p.8 Illustration by…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
LUCK I'm confident that Dona Highstone wasn't happy when she heard that incumbent Katherine Dunton, her opponent for a seat on a rural school board passed away, but it had to cross her mind that she had a good chance of winning the election. She was wrong. When all the votes were counted it was a tie.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 39 views
CHANCE Does fortune really smile on a select few people? What role does luck or chance play in our lives? The experience of a Wisconsin church suggests there are no such things as either luck or chance, but that God is involved in everything that happens. In August 1992, a tornado swept through a small…