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Peter De Vries

"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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"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'."

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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."

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"I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it."

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

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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."

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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

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

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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

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"I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy."

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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."

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