"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

Chance, Conviction, Man

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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

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Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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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

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

Leslie Stephen, English Author

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Body

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

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"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

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