Quotes 61 till 80 of 290.
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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.
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Destiny is not a 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.
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Steve Job's career timeline, CNN, 2009 -
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
Beyond Apollo Ch. 60 -
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
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Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.
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Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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