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• To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.

  Amy Sedaris

  Night, Gone, Done

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

  Ian Hacking

  Player, Odds, Games

  Ian Hacking (1990). “The Taming of Chance”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

  David Gemmell

  Real, War, May

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 1, 1990.

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• One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Jesus, Earth, Chance

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• I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

  Jane Goodall

  Karma, Believe, Giving

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• She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

  Ann Brashares

  Brave, Brain, Would Be

  Ann Brashares (2004). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, Laurel Leaf

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• This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is." "Okay." Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?" "No, only joking. Do your worst.

  Derek Landy

  Keys, Eyebrows, Chance

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• Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Girl, Running, Opposites

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to last. That experience. I'd finish it in a day otherwise, and that'd be like...like eating a carton of ice cream in one sitting. Too much richness over too quickly. This way, I can draw it out. Make the book last longer. Savor it. I have to since they don't come out that often.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Ice Cream, Sitting

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• Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Science, Magic

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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Long, One Day

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.

  Billie Letts

  Crazy, Lying, Mean

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• The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.

  Brom

  Fun, Heart, Race

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firefly, Night, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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• But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

  Claudia Gray

  Teacher, Destiny, Escaping

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• Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Hammocks, Requirements

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, College, Expression

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• With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Fickle, Chance

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• I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

  Helen Thomas

  Blow, Thinking, President

  "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Careers, Decision, Puppets

  "Katherine Jenkins: this much I know". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.

  David Letterman

  Obama Supporters, Iphone, President

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• The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it’ll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

  Ronda Rousey

  Winning, People, Lucky

  "Ronda Rousey, UFC Fighter, On Trash Talking, The Olympics And Her Warrior-Paleo Diet". Interview with Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.

  John Selden

  Law, Feet, Long

  "Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden (Equity)". Book by John Selden and Richard Milward, 1689.

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• Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

  Tara Lipinski

  Motivational, Athlete, Acting

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