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" It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. "

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Michael Gove

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Community

Government

" The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. "

" It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington. "

" In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. "

William Ernest Henley

Head

Chance

Clutch

" Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes. "

" I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings. "

" Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder. "

" The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity. "

" In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. "

Ansel Adams

Eye

Mind

" In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. "

" Just keep taking chances and having fun. "

" The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "

" Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. "

Kenneth Branagh

Film

Good

" If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative. "

" I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. "

" I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off. "

Lindsey Vonn

" You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed. "

" I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks. "

Billie Jean King

Chance

Who

" I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. "

" Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space. "

" No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. "

" Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure. "

" I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. "

" Good luck is a residue of preparation. "

" If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Saying

Good

Going

" I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that. "

" Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly. "

" This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. "

" God gave me a second chance. I am so very glad with what is going on with my career, but I want to be a success in my relationship with my children. "

" When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean. "