You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)