"Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species."
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"I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance."
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"All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't."
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"I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego."
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"As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool."
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"If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph."
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"Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not."
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"Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more."
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"For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance."
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"But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows."
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"Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance."
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"Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses."
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"Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing."
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"It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things."
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"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten."
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"No man ever became wise by chance."
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"Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance."
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"If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud."
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"I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are."
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"Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances."
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