"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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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."

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

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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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Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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