"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
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"I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it."
"Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance."
"Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
"Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!"
"If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich."
"Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning."
"Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance."
"In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality."
"The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change."
"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."
"... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'."
"...chance may do anything."
"The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance."
"A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out."
"Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you."
"Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss"
"If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't."
"You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in."