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“Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.”

Men Sometimes Politics Chance Power Failing Events Hair Depends Increase Profit Neglect Great Events

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”

People Giving Children Dream Young Chance Mistake Depends

Author:Walt Disney

“Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.”

Next Chance Pay Depends Please Fairs Bubbles Next Time Surviving

Author:Dave Winer

“If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.”

Ifs Chance Depends Unique Genes Mutation

Author:Frank B. Salisbury

“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”

Should Important Matter Character Hands Government Care Chance Opinion Depends Important Things Take Care Russia Philanthropy Treasury Leftovers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.”

Moments Chance Depends Mathematics Physics

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!”

Young Chance Education Teach Successful Depends Neighbor Being Successful

Book:A Romance of Two Worlds

Source: A Romance of Two Worlds

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”

People Knows Whole Action Chance Honest Depends Regard Fortune Neighbor Whole Life Esteem Reputation Merit Acquire Harvest Good Fortune Usefulness Proximity

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.”

People Knows Writing Looks Bigs Chance Depends Advantage Meetings Favors Who I Am Doing Me Chance Meeting

Author:Paul Theroux

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.”

Want Kind Mean Two Sometimes Facts Use Courses Chance Depends Ocean Fishes Determined Factors Interpretation Historian Swimming Inaccessible Slabs

Book:What is History?

Source: What is History?