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" Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women. "

" That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work. "

" 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.' "

" Ain't no chance if you don't take it. "

" There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. "

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" We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. "

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" A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. "

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

" I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's. "

" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

Stephen Leacock

" Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. "

William Jennings Bryan

" If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven. "

" 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. "

Charles M. Schwab

" As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions. "

Carlos Lopez-Cantera

" You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. "

" Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. "

" I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know. "

Krzysztof Kieslowski

" 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

" The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. "

" Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes. "

Michael J. Massimino

" I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it. "

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" There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. "

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" There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund. "

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" I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances. "

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

" When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor. "

" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "

" Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction. "

" A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. "

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