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• I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.

  Gerry Adams

  Thinking, Passing By, People

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.

  Karen Barber

  Prayer, Chapel

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Ideas, Infinity

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.326, Indiana University Press

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• How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, Events, Path

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

  Jay Inslee

  Believe, Interest, Constituents

  "Wealth Not Trickling Up House's Leadership Ladder". www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2000.

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• And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Events, Degrees, Negative

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.

  Jason Statham

  Thinking, Maps, Levels

  "AGENT ORANGE: Jason Statham Interview Part II: JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS of MARS". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 28, 2001.

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• Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Alive

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• I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Growing Up, Moon

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• All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Odd

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

  Jason Mraz

  Track, Luck, Surprise

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• The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

  Steve Burns

  Humble, People, Lessons

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• The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.

  Bob Dole

  Children, Village To Raise A Child, Doe

  Text of Robert Dole's Speech To The Republican National Convention, www.cnn.com. August 15, 1996.

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• Things like, people saying the new album would debut at number one on the Billboard Charts in the U.S. and I said, "No it's gonna be number Three." Because Number 3 is a very powerful number on the album. It's repeated quite often. Then it did chart an Number 3. Was it a coincidence you decide. If your in touch with your subconscious, you can really use it to your advantage

  Marilyn Manson

  Powerful, Numbers, People

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• Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Different, World

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• What a coincidence, they both go to College and I'm a rapist!

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, College

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Praying, Prayer Life

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• The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Fun, Attitude, People

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• For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Science

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Nothing in my life is a coincidence.

  Kami Garcia

  Life Is

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Alchemist, Luck

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, Together, Moments

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