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  My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Boys

  Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

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• Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Work, Sweat

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• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Men, Thinking, Opportunity

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

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• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Second Chance, Giving

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• Had I but died an hour before this chance,
  I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,
  There's nothing serious in mortality:
  All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;
  The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
  Is left this vault to brag of.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Blessed, Wine

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, One Tree Hill Love, One Tree Hill Voiceover

  'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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• Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

  Mel Gibson

  Independence, Film, Really Cool

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Acting, Actors

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• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Money, Winning

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• I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

  Jewel

  Fun, Take A Chance, Courageous

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• America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Hippie, Cities, America

  "Pelosi, Daschle Respond to Bush". Nancy Pelosi's official response to President Bush's 'State of the Union' address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Jail, Sailing

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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• I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

  Toby Keith

  Wall, Balls, Ifs

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• The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Science, Light

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• Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

  Michael Schudson

  Business, Agency, Long

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.108, Routledge

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• I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Europe, Fancy

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• Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Years, Authority

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• I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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• If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

  Rosalyn Drexler

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  Peter De Vries

  Laughter, Humor, Another Chance

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Sitting, Anarchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Mother, Fear

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

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