Accidents Quotes - Page 33

• Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's[sic] first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together.

  Jerome Corsi

  Military, Party, Gay

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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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• Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Opiates

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.65

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Heaven, Religion

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• But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.396, OUP Oxford

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• It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

  Nick Bantock

  Foundation, Nasty, Absence

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• Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

  Jack Benny

  Happened

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• Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

  Raphael Soyer

  Kind, Certain, Brushes

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