Quotes by chance
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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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 is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
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Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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