"Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward."
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"People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing."
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"When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."
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"If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy."
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"If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like."
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"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."
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"No victor believes in chance."
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"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."
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"Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance."
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"A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word."
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"Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight"
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"I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night."
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"A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought."
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"I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day."
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"If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination."
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"There is no such thing as no chance."
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"We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance."
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"They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will."
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"The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service."
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"Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!"
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