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Lauren Conrad Television Personality, Fashion Designer
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"This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true."

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed."

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back."

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"What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance."

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"If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good."

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Nikos Kazantzakis Novelist, Playwright
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"Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact."

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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family."

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here."

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