"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."

Chance, Nothing, Will

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Chance, Memory, Poison

"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Chance, Now, State

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Chance, Children, Film, Pleasure

"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

Chance, Hindsight, World

"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

Chance, Potential, Danger, Delay, Time

"I don't give players a chance to hit me."

Eric Dickerson, American Athlete

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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Chance,

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Chance, Fact, Reading

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Chance,

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

Chance, Housework

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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

Thought

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

Beauty

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

People

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

Money

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

Man

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

Anger

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."

Man

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

"I don't give players a chance to hit me."

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."

"Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts."

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way."

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."