"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."

Chance, Luck

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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."

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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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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

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

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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."

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

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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."