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" My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. "

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" There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. "

Jeff Greenfield

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" Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent. "

" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "

" I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over. "

" Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? "

" The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. "

" Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. "

" The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. "

" If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion. "

" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "

" There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have. "

" Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. "

" Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. "

" When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time. "

" No man was ever wise by chance. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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" St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. "

" The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor. "

Gary Sinise

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" Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. "

" Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. "

" Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. "

" Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion. "

" Good luck is a residue of preparation. "

" We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. "

" Although there is a beast in all of us, we don't show it often. But it is very liberating to be that angry at times. Given a chance, I'm sure people would like to go on a rampage and break everything. "

" I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance. "

" I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "

" More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. "

" If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth. "

" 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. "

" Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people. "