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• I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

  Glen Duncan

  Design, Bears, Should

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• I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Fate, Born

  "Cyborg 1.0" by Kevin Warwick, www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

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• I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

  Kevin Warwick

  Fate, Childhood, Robots

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• I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

  Alberta Hunter

  People, Purpose, Has Beens

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• Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

  Charles Poliquin

  Food, Health, Mouths

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• There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness:
  - people who want to have, to collect
  - people who want action, work and labor
  - people who want to be
  The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Real, People, Three

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• I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...

  Shailene Woodley

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

  Pharrell Williams

  Mistake, Writing, Odds

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

  Dallas Willard

  Personal Transformation, Succeed, Projects

  "Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation".

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• Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Intelligent, Appreciate, Realizing

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

  PZ Myers

  Law, Special, Important

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• Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

  Francis Bacon

  Circles, Medicine, Disease

  "Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

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• My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Law, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Writing, Men

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

  Shane Harper

  Life, Inspiring, People

  "God’s Not Dead". Interview with Daniaja Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

  Merv Griffin

  Mistake, Believe, Fate

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• You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Excellence, Habit

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• No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Music, Moving, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

  Gianfranco Fini

  Coincidence, Circumstances, Series

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• The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Three, Lasts

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• Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

  Leo Baekeland

  Photography, Dollars, Paper

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• We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.

  Price Pritchett

  Strong, Achievement, Excellence

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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