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" Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. "

Walter Anderson

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" Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. "

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" When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. "

" I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life. "

" No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "

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" It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time. "

" It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk. "

Hillary Clinton

" From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. "

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" 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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" Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do. "

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" 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. "

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" Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. "

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" Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure. "

Valentino Rossi

" For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good chance of going in. So it's finding ways of creating different shots. Being smart. I watch film a lot, and different tricks that I can do to get my shot off the ball and creating ways to get shots off of pick-and-rolls or one-on-one situations like that. "

" And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it. "

" Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself. "

" The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. "

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" If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. "

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" I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. "

Paula Radcliffe

" Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity. "