"When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others"
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"In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America"
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"Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance."
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"When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew."
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"I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given."
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"The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover."
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"Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion."
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"Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!"
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"These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose."
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"Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character."
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"Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow."
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"Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish."
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"Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance."
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"Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."
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"I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that."
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"A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it."
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"With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made."
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"Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?"
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"I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way."
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"The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up."
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