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"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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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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"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."
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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'."
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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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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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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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"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."
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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
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"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
Politics
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
Man
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
Heart
"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."
God
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Nature
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Alimentary
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
Thought
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
Emotional
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
Life
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Creativity
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