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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."

"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

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"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."

Dave Brubeck, American Musician

Chance, Mistakes, Order, Play

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"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."

"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

Chance, Novelty

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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."

"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."

Joe Lando, American Actor

Chance, Play, Want

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"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."

"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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"You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points."

"You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points."

Sterling Marlin, American Athlete

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"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Jean Nidetch, American Businessman

Chance, Choice, Destiny

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"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

Chance, Job, Pretty, Sky

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"Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do."

"Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do."

Peter Shilton, English Athlete

Chance, Nothing

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"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

Richard Eyre, British Director

Chance, Fantasy, Reality

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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

Leslie Stephen, English Author

Chance, Ignorance, Name

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"If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit."

"If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit."

Paul Waner, American Athlete

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

Chance, Giving, Now, Talk

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"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."

"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."

Patrick Swayze, American Actor

Chance, Film, Magic

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"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."

"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."

Rob Mariano, American Celebrity

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"When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'"

"When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'"

Vince Cable, British Politician

Chance, Company, Future, Job

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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."

"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist

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"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."

"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."

Ida Tarbell, American Journalist

Chance, Force, Security, Value

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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."

"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."

William Ernest Henley, English Poet

Chance, Circumstance

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"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."

"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."

Mark Shields, American Journalist

Chance, Vietnam

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

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

Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist

Chance, Chicago, Spirit, Will

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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."

"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."

Dana Fox, American Writer

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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

Chance, Children, Sun, Will

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

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

Richard Richards, American Astronaut

Chance, Consequences, Man, Will

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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."

"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

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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."

"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

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"Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it."

"Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it."

Vera Nazarian, American Writer

Chance, Luck, Fate, Opportunity

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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."

"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."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Chance, Accident, Observation, Life

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

"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

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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."

"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

Chance, Truth, Hope, Inspirational, Power

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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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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'."

"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

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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."

"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

Chance, Hope, Life, Nature

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

"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

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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."

"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

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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."

"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."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Chance, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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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."

"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

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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."

"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

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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."

"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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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."

"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Chance, Success, Life, Opportunity

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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."

"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

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