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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

"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

"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

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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."

"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."

"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."

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"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."

"Now you know the rest of the story."

"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be."

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."

"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."

"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."

"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."

"Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people."

"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."