"A fool must now and then be right, by chance."

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

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Louis Pasteur, French Scientist

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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

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"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

Juice Newton, American Musician

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"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

Richard Eyre, British Director

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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."

George Shearing, British Musician

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"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

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

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

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"Ain't no chance if you don't take it."

Guy Clark, American Musician

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"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."

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"O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place."

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"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"

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