[At first, all you can see is what appears to be...a casino. Bright lights, loud noises, people in formal wear, uh, someone getting tossed out by a couple of security guards...yeah, you know the drill. When the comm stops panning around this very colorful scene, it focuses on Beatrice, all dolled up in a slinky crimson number with a fur boa
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Oh? How so, demon? Are not curses par for the course in an existence like yours?
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[She chuckles, then finishes off her champagne.]
Yet luck bows down to no one, no matter whether a person wishes to use it for good or for ill. How then, do you feel it can change the world?
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Luck, then, should be treated as just a part of the environment, like precipitation- falling here and there by chance. Let luck remain on the outside, while skill remain with the person's own self.
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Many wars have been won as a result of luck. Rebellions, in particular, when it is the common man placing themselves against an entire regime.
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The commander who thinks to attack while under cover of a thick fog has every right to congratulate himself on his own cleverness. But to congratulate himself for the fog being there in the first place? That would be an absurdity! One is skill, and the other is luck. The luck may make skill possible, as the commander takes advantage of the luck of the fog. In the end however, the two are separate.
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