Coincidence Quotes - Page 8

• My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

  Charles Fort

  Thinking, What If, Pseudo

  Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin

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• Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

  Lionel

  Liars, Fool, Used

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• I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

  James Boswell

  Different, Three, May

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• The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Meaningful, Lying, Mind

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."

  Giovanna Cau

  Daughter, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives.

  Delia Parr

  Strong, Real, Design

  Delia Parr (2010). “Love's First Bloom (Hearts Along the River Book #2)”, p.312, Bethany House

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• As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

  Tom Brevoort

  Next, Firsts, Bricks

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• It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Land, Pork

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.11, 谷月社

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• Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is that the two most religious nations in the Western World - the United States and Israel - are also arguably the world's two most scientifically and technologically advanced.

  Evan Sayet

  Religious, Israel, Two

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• A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.

  Greg Iles

  War, Book, Writing

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• By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, People, Statistics

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Military, Arriving, Rooms

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• Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.

  Paul Konerko

  Games, Play, Guy

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• I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

  Aaron Boone

  Home, Thinking, Play

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• Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Home, Design

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• Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

  Jean Genet

  Love, Noble, Use

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Media, Proud

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• Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Saws, Vengeance

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• One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

  Eric Holder

  Impact, Dysfunction, Want

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• I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

  M. Scott Peck

  God, Dream, Voice

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• People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Two, Numbers, People

  "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Custodians, Literature

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• By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Country, Russia, Years

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 267), 1991.

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• It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  America, Steel, Textiles

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• When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Strange, Should, Strange Things

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.42, Random House

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