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"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."
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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."
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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."
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"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."
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"I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across."
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
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"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
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"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."
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"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."
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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."
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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
Fire
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
Resilience
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
Crisis
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
Honesty
"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."
Education
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
Politics
"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
Death
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
Politics
"Cynicism is humor in ill health."
Health
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
Time
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