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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

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The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do...

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If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. ...

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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the dif...

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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say...

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No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the pol...

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If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind y...

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So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into...

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You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. ...

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Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological o...

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...

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I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going t...

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

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So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...

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I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...

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I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...

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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own re...

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We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into off...

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Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hop...

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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, yo...

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It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequa...

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We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.

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Théophile GautierThe Cross of Berny or Irene's Lovers

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone ...

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But chance has a taste for conspiracy.

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Umberto EcoFoucault's Pendulum

... plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and...

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Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Un...

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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, ch...

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Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMa...

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Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

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The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

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William A. DembskiThe Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of a...

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I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of...

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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how c...

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It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

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It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact...

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Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—...

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...

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If you give people a chance, they shine.

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Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly's Route 66

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles...

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Brandon BoydWhite Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front ...

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Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Prisoner of Heaven

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we d...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar s...

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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% c...

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If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all t...

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He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

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David Mitchell (author)The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of payin...

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You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming toget...

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It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consis...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt p...

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No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater in...

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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance ...

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense...

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Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some ...

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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Peopl...

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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the earl...

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The harder you work the luckier you get.

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a ...

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How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what...

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And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to ...

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe...

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Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions),...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite na...

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If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, withou...

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He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos b...

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