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" The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. "

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Richard N. Haass

" It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot. "

" It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line. "

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" America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. "

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" I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system. "

Stephen Hawking

" John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.' "

Stephen Merchant

" At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. "

" I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. "

" I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance. "

" 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. "

Christopher Morley

" I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. "

Alexander Fleming

" There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. "

" First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. "

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Robert H. Schuller

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

" Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. "

" 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

" The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper. "

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" I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. "

Condoleezza Rice

" The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere. "

" It takes one person to give you a big chance. "

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" How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? "