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• With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Self Confidence, Balance, Should

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Three, Figures, Existence

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• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, People

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• More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leader, Together, Grit

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.206, John Wiley & Sons

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• War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Outcomes, Way

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

  George Santayana

  Men, Historical, Language

  The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

  Michael Lewis

  Successful, People, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Rawness, Chance

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• Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

  Albert M. Greenfield

  Luck, Happens, Competent

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• It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

  Andrew Davidson

  Like Love, Ambush, Unsuspecting

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.5, Anchor

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• If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Alma Gluck

  Giving Up, Goal, Advice

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• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  Lara St. John

  Crowds, Strange, Reactions

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• You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Interview: Ashley Judd And Kevin Kline". Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 1, 2004.

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

  Josef Albers

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

  Herman Kahn

  Nuclear, Accepting, Situation

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• Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Fate, Ideas, People

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.4, Alfred Music

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• What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Things In Life, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

  Ben Hogan

  Moving, Balls, Way

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• I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

  Edie Sedgwick

  Years, Two, One Day

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Law, Good Christian, Christianity

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.412, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Essence, Religion, Transcendentalism

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• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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