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“Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”

Ifs Men Different Given Chance White Organization Favors Wounds Indian Severe White Man

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'”

Wells Stuff Chance Prepared Favors

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.”

States Character Chance United Pay United States Citizens Draws Forgiveness Thirds Crowds Favors Fifty Grants

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.”

May Said Sometimes Opportunity Chance Opinion Courage Fool Fortune Favors Enterprise Prudent Valor

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“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

“Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.”

World Looks Reason Use Able Earth Turns Strong Chance Bases Favors Unshakable

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.”

Winning Chance Situation Issues Cutting Taxes Creating Increase Election Democrat Favors Primaries Zero Pledge Tax Cuts Nominations Can't Win Tax Increases

Author:Dick Morris

“Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.”

Games Chance Favors Matrimony Clergy

Author:Emily Murphy

“No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.”

Men Reason Chance Credit Favors Esteem Ashamed Giver Patron Receiver Scandalous

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.”

May Doe Certain Individual Chance Loss Numbers Impossible Security Commitment Safety Investing Profit Work Out Favors Guarantees Investors Exceed Margins

Author:Benjamin Graham

“... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.”

Mind Chance Prepared Favors Telegraph Electric Current

Author:Louis Pasteur