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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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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."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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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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"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."
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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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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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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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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
Intelligence
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
Power
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
Action
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
Men
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
Wisdom
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
Mother
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
Life
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
Rest
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
Chance
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
Power
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