"Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100."

Chance, Children, Living, Today

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"Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100."

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

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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

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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'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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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."

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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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"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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"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"

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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."

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"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."

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"The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind."

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"In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like."

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"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."

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"Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy."

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"If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people."

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