"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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

Henry Miller, American Author

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

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."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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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

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

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"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."

W. G. Sebald, German Writer

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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again."

Ricky Nelson, American Musician

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"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."

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"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"

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"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."

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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

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"I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it."

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"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

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

"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."

"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

"To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again."

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"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."

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"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

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"The devil made me do it."

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"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."