Encourage the good to outwit the bad and, with luck, you keep Nemesis at bay.

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We do our best, trust to luck, and just keep swimming.

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With luck, the new preservation efforts will keep the Mother Road alive and well.

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With any luck the unsubstantiated claims by the environmental lobby will not keep us from utilizing our clean natural gas resources or develop a vibrant energy economy here at home.

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Accenture doesn't say why it picked Bermuda when it changed its name, "rebranded, " and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001. (In one of the best bits of luck in corporate history, Accenture lost its fight to keep the Andersen name.) But taxes, to hear Accenture tell it, had nothing to do with the decision.

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Similarly, when gamblers are on winning streaks, they keep betting or even increase their wagers to take advantage of their good luck.

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