"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."

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"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."

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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."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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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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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

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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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"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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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."

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"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."

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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

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"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."

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"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."

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