"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."

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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."

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

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Marcel Proust, French Author

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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

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

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

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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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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"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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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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