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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

  Jerry Mander

  Television, Environment, Conspiracy

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• A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Technology, People

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Thinking

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• When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong.
  In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain;
  more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

  Carole Bouquet

  Strong, Pain, Loss

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• However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

  Eustace Mullins

  Uncles, War, Book

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• Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

  Albert Scott Crossfield

  Pilots, Aviation, Sometimes

  Albert Scott Crossfield (2015). “Always Another Dawn: The Story Of A Rocket Test Pilot”, p.109, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

  Fred Upton

  Silver Platter, Needs, Information

  "New NHTSA Administrator Sue Bailey Already in Hot Seat Over Firestone Tire Problems". "Morning News" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2000.

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• My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

  Brad Meltzer

  Worst Moments, Perfect, Parent

  "‘Heroes For My Son’: The Day I Broke My Son’s Heart" by Brad Meltzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

  Liam Gallagher

  Hate, Thinking, Wish

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• Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

  Connie Willis

  Order, Years, Connections

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.80, Spectra

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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• You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Destiny, Parent

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

  Howard Barker

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

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• Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Nuclear, Normal, Air Pollution

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

  Lou Gramm

  Sheep, Black, Ends

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• There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspiring, Coincidence In Life, Action

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophical, Men, Squares

  "Review of Teilhard de Chardin's 'The Phenomenon of Man'". "Mind", Vol 70, pp. 99-105, 1961.

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Example, Alternatives

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Natural, Results

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Looks, Use, Way

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• There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Energy, Forget, Persons

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• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

  Stephen Stills

  Children, Kids, College

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