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

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" Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. "

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" The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. "

" In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. "

" No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.' "

" Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games. "

" I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more. "

Q'orianka Kilcher

" When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. "

" We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. "

" I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. "

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

" There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. "

" I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation. "

Hillary Clinton

" When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes. "

Marcus Samuelsson

" Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language. "

" I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all. "

" If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. "

" 'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it. "

" Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. "

Gary Ryan Blair

" 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. "

" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "

Emily Dickinson

" As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress. "

Charles B. Rangel

" Good luck is a residue of preparation. "

Jack Youngblood

" People like my fashion sense a lot, but somehow, I never got a chance to wear stuff that I love on screen. "

" We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit. "

David E. Sanger

" We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. "

" If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances. "

" Some folk want their luck buttered. "

" 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. "

Carol Ann Duffy