"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."
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"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
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"If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter."
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"The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero."
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"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
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"Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation."
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"An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same."
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"The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'"
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"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for."
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"If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false."
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"You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing."
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"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."
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"The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment."
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"Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity."
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"The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels."
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"If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!"
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"No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances."
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"Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance."
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"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated."
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