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" If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something. "

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" I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. "

" I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. "

" It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. "

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" Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress. "

" I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. "

" I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. "

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" The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream. "

" In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. "

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. "

" People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. "

" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "

" Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. "

Peter Diamandis

" Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it. "

" If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. "

" It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty. "

Sebastian Vettel

" Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. "

" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

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" Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. "

Marilyn Ferguson

" Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you. "

" Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. "

" ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. "

Sebastiao Salgado

" You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin. "

" Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people. "

" The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. "

" All good ideas arrive by chance. "

" To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "

" There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book. "