"Chance favors the prepared mind"


	"Chance favors the prepared mind"

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11-3-2008 1:11 AM

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11-3-2008 1:12 AM

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t’s not that these magical moments of epiphany don’t happen. In small ways, they happen all the time. But they’re not nearly as important as what the innovator did before — or ultimately does after — the magic light bulb goes on. As the French scientist Louis Pasteur once said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.”

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