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" The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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" 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. "

" In every organization, there are many people, from senior leaders to first-time managers, who have the power to elevate women in the workplace. I wouldn't be in the position I'm in today without several key people in power believing in me and giving me a chance to succeed. "

" The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. "

" So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back! "

" When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. "

" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "

" The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front. "

" I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb. "

" So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world. "

" 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. "

" When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. "

" There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance. "

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

Charlize Theron

" Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance. "

" If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun. "

" If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. "

" Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. "

" Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you. "

" One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. "

" I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. "

" Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital. "

" I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. "

" I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike. "

" My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do. "

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

Stephen Hawking

" By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. "

" The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world. "

" I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. "