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brute luck  

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  • Brute luck is the good or bad luck that one has independently of one's choices. Paradigmatic cases of brute luck are stumbling over a chest of gold (good) and being struck down by lightning (bad). [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Luck, Brute]

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