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• They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

  Jay Leno

  Firsts, Coins, Toss

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• Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.

  eL Seed

  Reading, Fate, Sometimes

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

  Corey Feldman

  Believe, Thinking, Coincidence In Life

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

  Eric Hoffer

  Drama, Artist, Destiny

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• The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Real, Kids

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• It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

  Scott McClellan

  Parent, Kent

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• Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Holiday, Holy Days

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• It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Community, Poverty

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

  Tony Rothman

  Moving, Eye, Angel

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• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  J. Cole

  Rapper, Guarantees, Storyteller

  "VIBE Summer 2013 Cover: J. Cole And Nas". Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.

  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Years, America, Towers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

  Warsan Shire

  Inspiration, People, Favourite

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• When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Book, Ideas, Mind

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.31

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• An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

  Harold McGee

  Art, Food, Understanding

  Harold McGee (2003). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, Scribner

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• Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Soldier, Coal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Luck, Superstitions

  Margery Allingham (2014). “Police at the Funeral”, p.68, Random House

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• The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

  Susan Collins

  Success, Lying, Magic

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Wicked

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• And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

  John Irving

  Young, Novel, Forethought

  "John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River". Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. January 29, 2010.

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• The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Lying, Profound

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Way, Were Meant To Be, Happenings

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

  David Foenkinos

  Running, Thinking, Doe

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.141, A&C Black

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• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Fate, Exercise, Choices

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Intellect

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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