Quotes: 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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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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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 fool must now and then be right, by 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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A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
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A problem is your chance to do your best.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
