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• Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

  Ralph Steadman

  Art, Half, Experiments

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• Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

  Patti Smith

  Adventure, Fate, Design

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• I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Jumping, Use, Done

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• You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Success, Confidence

  Max Lucado (2009). “Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Realizing, Circumstances, Presenting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Roots, Democracy

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Law, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.74

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• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

  J. G. Holland

  Science, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.20

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• Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Inspire, Enlightenment

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• Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Faith, Inspiration, Romance

  Charles J. Chaput (2017). “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World”, p.225, Henry Holt and Company

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• Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Pussy, Church

  Song: Da Graveyard

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• We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

  Charles Dickens

  Discovery, Heaven, Mystery

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.198

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• It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Believe, Special

  Steven Weinberg (1977). “The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Life, Running, People

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Government, Years

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Art, Passion

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• Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.

  Ann Curry

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Journey

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• A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

  Paul Valery

  Death, Satisfaction, Needs

  "Collected Works", vol. 1, translated by David Paul, 1972.

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• Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Depression, Power, Light

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Giving

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• For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song and then afterward it turns out being really personal. I get really overwhelmed by how I feel a lot and sometimes - I feel like my body and my brain can't deal with all the different emotions and I feel like I'm just going to explode.

  Jessica Lea Mayfield

  Song, Writing, Being Real

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• [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Matter, Next

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• Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

  Don Blanding

  Artist, Choices, Vagabonds

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• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Birthday, San Francisco, Giving

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