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• If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Real, Land, Three

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.40, BenBella Books

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees. I say that as a grown-up moviegoer; behind me at a recent screening was a row of 10-year-old boys who were ecstatically in from the get-go. That's probably all that matters.

  Ty Burr

  Winning, Boys, Epic

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• It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

  Michael Hyatt

  Succeed, Fantasy, Settling

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

  Chad Kroeger

  Horse, Successful, Dark

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• One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

  Brook Benton

  Fun, Heaven, One Day

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• A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

  Deborah Kass

  America, Broadway, Narrative

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• By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Kids, Overcoming, Ordinary

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• The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Education, Mind, Facts

  Song: Get The Picture

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• I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Law, Ideas, Sensible

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• The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Fighting, Men, Sight

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• In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.

  Ari Kiev

  Adversity, Practice, Goal

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• One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

  Lucy Lawless

  Nice, People, Mind

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Kids, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pride, Years, America

  First State of the Union Address, delivered 26 January 1982

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• As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

  Tom Peters

  Journey, Yarn, Creating

  Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com, November 5, 2010.

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• In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Quality, Heritage, Firsts

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

  Keith Olbermann

  Struggle, Years, Games

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• Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

  Bill Simmons

  Names, Want, Circumstances

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• The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Pain, Injury, Said

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• And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Memories

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

  Lucretius

  Atheism, May, Limits

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• According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance is virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!

  Hugh Ross

  Numbers, Phds, Chance

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• Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, May, Chains

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

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