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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance."

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Sandra Brown Author
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"I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role."

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"It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them."

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