"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

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"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

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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."

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Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"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."

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"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

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"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

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

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

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

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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

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