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“But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.”

Chance Wind Slave Blow Accidents Guilty

Author:William Shakespeare

“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.”

People Ifs Years Kind Different Hard Moments Process Chance Changed Wind Blow Scary Breathe Boat Lakes Different Kinds Canoeing

Author:Seth Godin

“Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.”

Ifs May Chance Wind Blow Rough Pilots Smooth Breeze Port Vigilance Slumber Helm Tow

Author:Ben Jonson

“Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.”

Ifs Humans Shows Happens Humanity Names Chance Half Destiny Blow Human Life Life And Death Again And Again Persistent Hearted Drought Canals Half Hearted

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.”

Giving Firsts May Important Use Energy Force Chance Enemy Victory Waste Thirds Increase Fruit Blow Pursuit Chiefs Wasting Time Elsewhere Fourth Beaten Sections Disadvantages Follow Up

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.”

Ifs Knows Wells Chance Blow Hats Rabbits Top Hats Fulham

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.”

“A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.”

People Given Chance Blow Given A Chance

Author:David Hockney