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• Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Night, Gnats, Trying

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• Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Sides, Middle

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• If you have a lane, you have a chance.

  Mark Spitz

  Lanes, Ifs

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• There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

  Jill McCorkle

  Choices

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• If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

  Mark Hateley

  Two, Goal, Giving

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• You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

  Mike Trout

  Thinking, Bats, Balls

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• One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

  Jonas Salk

  Giving, Rewards

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• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Luck

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Fog

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mechanic, Friction, Contact

  Carl von Clausewitz (2014). “Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• Time is old. Life is short.
  Only this moment is guaranteed to you.
  Fight hard to do the things you dream of.
  You may not have another chance.

  Heather Dorff

  Dream, Life Is Short, Fighting

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• Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it

  Heather Dorff

  Take A Chance, Sometimes

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• When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Settling, Standards

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• Choices not chance determine your destiny.

  Barbara Johnson

  Destiny, Choices, Determine

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• When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Trying, Theater, Checks

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• Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

  Monty Roberts

  Want, Action, Responsible

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• Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

  Amy Bloom

  Aging

  "How to Have (Better) Sex As You Get Older" by Amy Bloom, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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• If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

  Loretta Lynn

  Husband, Ideas, Singing

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• Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

  Laurence Boldt

  Confused, Self Confidence, Simple

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.941, Penguin

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• An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Important, Speech, Information

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• To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

  Gerard Houllier

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.

  Scotty Bowman

  Jobs, Team, Believe

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• That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Differences, Would Be

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• As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iran, Trying, Nuclear

  "Noam Chomsky: Talking About Iran Sanctions Is ‘Surreal’" by Andrew Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2014.

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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