"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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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."

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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