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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition)."

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Ovid Poet
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"It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive."

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Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet
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"Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it."

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Gordon Brown Politician
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"Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential"

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Gunter Grass Novelist
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"In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God."

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