"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."

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"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."

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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

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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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

William James, American Philosopher

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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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"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

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

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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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."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."

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"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."

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"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"

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"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers."

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"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."

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"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."

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"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes."

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"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules."

Time