"For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with."

Chance, Rights, Shadows, Tyranny

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"For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with."

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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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"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."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

Leslie Stephen, English Author

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

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"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."

Carl Levin, American Politician

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"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."

Alois Brunner, Austrian Criminal

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"The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups."

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"While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing."

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"Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed."

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"On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income."

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"Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace."

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"If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years."

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"The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal."

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"American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just."

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