"A problem is your chance to do your best."

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

Henry Miller, American Author

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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

Chance, Memory, Poison

"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

"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

"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

"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."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Chance, Fate, Irony, Hope

"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

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Chance, Fact, Reading

"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

"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

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"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

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"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."

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"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

Being

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

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"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

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"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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'."

"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."

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

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

"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."

"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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"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

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"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."