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

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

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"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

"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

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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

Chance, Now, State

"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

Chance, Children, Film, Pleasure

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

S. I. Hayakawa, American Politician

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"If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences."

Richard Richards, American Astronaut

Chance, Consequences, Man, Will

"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

Chance, Hindsight, World

"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."

Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist

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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

Chance, Potential, Danger, Delay, Time

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

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

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

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

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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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

"If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences."

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

"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."

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

Explore more quotes by Paul Harvey

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Now you know the rest of the story."

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