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" It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. "

John Paul Jones

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" A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. "

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" How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell. "

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" Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance. "

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" You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that. "

Joe Kennedy III

" The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick. "

" Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. "

" To be successful, one must take chances. "

Willie Stargell

" War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. "

" What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine. "

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

" The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.' "

" For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

Billie Jean King

" Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me. "

" I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. "

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