Accidents Quotes - Page 40

• If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

  Julio Frenk

  Children, School, Age

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

  T. D. Jakes

  Purpose

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2015

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• What's up?  I'm Harris.  I'm 33 years young.  I have my cousin Jason's truck for two more weeks.  I have one testicle-whack a mole accident-and I'm down to clown.

  Harris Wittels

  Cousin, Years, Two

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• Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Doe, Existence

  1932 Texts and Pretexts, introduction.

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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Men, Soldier

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• I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Clumsy

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• I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.

  Questlove

  Thinking, Cracks, Conspiracy

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

  Elie Tahari

  Fashion, New York, Energy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

  Lake Bell

  Secret, Happy Accidents, Wonderful

  "Lake Bell on 'Man Up,' Simon Pegg, 'The Secret Life of Pets,' and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Speaking of Liberty". Book by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, 2003.

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• A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Men, Errors

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opportunity, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.502, Princeton University Press

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• If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

  Timothy C. Draper

  Visionaries, Want, Ifs

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• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flames, Voice, Greek

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Character, Adversity, Opportunity

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• I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Fashion, Independent

  "The world's first wrap star" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

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• Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Existence, Possession, Plans

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• People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Car, Causes

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• My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

  Colin Callender

  Careers, Design, Sometimes

  Source: deadline.com

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• I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

  Davone Bess

  Believe, Everything Happens For A Reason, Earth

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Ninety Nine, Needs

  "Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James D. Newton, 1987.

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• The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.

  Valerie Solanas

  Males, Female, Scum

  The S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

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• I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Great Love, Doe, Shields

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.46, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.105, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, People, Training

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.291, Vintage

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