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An interesting quote by Reba McEntire states, “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” This means that one needs luck, courage, and humor in order to succeed. Life can prove to be very challenging unless someone has these qualities. McEntire suggests that luck is important to have in life to succeed. Luck is an interesting concept. It is based on chance and determines whether someone succeeds or fails (oxforddictionaries.com). Luck, however, is simply an idea and cannot be explained nor proven. In the sense that luck is what we should call the chance that something should prevail is understandable. It would be less sensible to present luck as something such as a force. Nevertheless,

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