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" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Just keep taking chances and having fun. "

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" There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. "

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" If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance. "

" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "

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" Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time. "

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