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"You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad."
"When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'"
"Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you."
"....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!"
"If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner"
"Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance."
"Failure is the chance to do it better next time."
"Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best."
"I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans."
"You have only one chance to raise your child."
"We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying"
"Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically."
"Practice every time you get a chance"
"Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny."
"Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance."
"People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment."
"Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security."
"The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented."
"Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters."
"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine"
