Quotes with chance

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  • Sydney Smith Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Jack Dempsey Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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  • C. S. Lewis Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Helen Rowland Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brandi Chastain Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Farquhar Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Jesse Owens One chance is all you need.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Thomas Mann Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Jacques Delille Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Eric Hoffer Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Butch Trucks Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Louis L'Amour Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
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