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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

Chance, Fate, Ignorance, Science

"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

Chance, Cheerfulness, End, Man

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

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Chance, Luck, Knowledge, Life, Curiosity

"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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Chance, Man, Reason, Taste

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

Chance, Necessity, Universe

"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."

Rosamund Pike, British Actress

Chance, Energy, Marines, Prejudice

"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."

Ida Tarbell, American Journalist

Chance, Force, Security, Value

"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."

William James, American Philosopher

Chance, Hope, Life, Nature

"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

Chance, Love, Opportunity, Loss

"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."

Anne Bradstreet, American Poet

Chance,

Explore more quotes by Jack Dempsey

"A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol."

Help

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him."

Time

"You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings."

Reading

"Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning."

Want

"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry."

Politics

"Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body."

Man

"A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end."

Sports

"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."

Pretty

"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."

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