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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Aristotle
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Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra
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Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. -Stephen Hawking
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.  -Louis Pasteur
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides
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I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Tiger Woods
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight. -Horatio Nelson
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Chance is a name for our ignorance. -Leslie Stephen
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. -Mary Mcleod Bethune
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It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

Richard Pryor
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan
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I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. -Abraham Lincoln
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln
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If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. -Paul Harvey
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Clarence Day
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The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Roger Babson
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Chance is the fool's name for Fate. -Fred Astaire
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux
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All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. -Oprah Winfrey
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