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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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• 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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• Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Companionship, Accidents

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 4 (1907)

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• All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

  Alexander Pope

  Erring, Discord

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance

  Dale Carnegie

  Overcoming Addiction, Risk, Life Is

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

  Spike Milligan

  Money, Saving, Investment

  "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

  Evan Esar

  Successful, Want, Ifs

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• Chance favors only those who court her.

  Charles Nicolle

  Inspirational, Second Chance, Favors

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• Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Trust, Risk, Classroom

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• That power Which erring men call Chance.

  John Milton

  Men, Erring

  'Comus' (1637) l. 586

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• I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

  Gordon Getty

  Reincarnation, Composer

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Men, Gambling

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Dream, Second Chance, Comeback

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

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• I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

  Sean Connery

  Reality, Thinking, Realistic

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

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• Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

  George V

  Life, Godly, Advice

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• The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Music, Jazz, Wonderful

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Chance favors those in motion.

  James H. Austin

  Inspirational, Basketball, Favors

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• A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Dice, Abolish

  1914 Title of poem, in Cosmopolis, May.

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• I never do anything by chance.

  Brigitte Bardot

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