"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."

Chance, Hope, Life, Nature

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"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."

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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

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"I don't give players a chance to hit me."

Eric Dickerson, American Athlete

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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

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"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."

Mark Shields, American Journalist

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"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."

William Odom, American Soldier

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

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"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."

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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

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