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“Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.”

May Might Next Found Chance Principles Becoming Republican Damage Senate Romney November Gop

Author:George Will

“I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.”

Enough Wanted Found Chance Acting Lucky Swimming Gymnastics Kickboxing

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.”

Way Mind Character Found Chance Effort Security Understood Absolutes Independence Threat Strive Strength Of Character Be Confident

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.”

Ifs Men Soul Age Dies Found Chance Poverty Talent Genius Extraordinary Refuse Yield Woe Oblivion Firmness Woe Unto

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

People World Children War Today Dies Found Born Chance Poor Class Study Rich Moved Determine British War Of The Worlds Britain Second World War Chatter Poor Family Rich Family

Author:Johann Hari

“According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance is virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!”

Ifs Found Chance Numbers Impossible Happenings Inspired Proof Mathematical Professors Odds Fulfilled Prophecy Probability Qualified Chances Are Phds

Author:Hugh Ross

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”

Eye Found Born Chance Politician Easier Comfort Argument Conviction

Book:The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

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Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.”

Kind Children Made Reading Found Chance Written Television Industry Stranger Mediums Fascination Abraham 1930s Portraying

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.”

Way Looks Kids Film Found Chance Technology Talent Cry Scene Tricks My Way Devices Cheated Iphone I Cheated

Author:Jason Bateman

“Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.”

Littles Able Found Individual Chance Evidence Mere Investing Expected Fund Random Chance

Author:Michael Jensen

“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.”

Remember Found Chance Impossible Events Anxiety Circles Poison Cycles My Thoughts Twisted Remarks Pulse Ivy Hammered Poison Ivy

Book:The Beast: A Journey Through Depression

Source: The Beast: A Journey Through Depression

“My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.”

Ifs Want Hard Enough Found Chance Practice Greater Hard Work Baseball Want Something

Author:Ted Williams

“The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.”

Found Sex Chance Class Feminism Intellectual Female Improvement Educated Womens Rights Occasional Intercourse

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.”

Ifs Feels Artist Found Chance Audience Air New Things Fresh Air

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.”

“One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

Culture Found Grows Chance Pleasure Growing Up Path Flower Seeds Unexpected Sparks Gladness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.”

Ifs Art Made Found Chance Creation Objects Ready Mass Separation Fountain Sculpture Items Miraculous Commonplace Abolish Art And Life Found Objects

Author:Charles Simic

“Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.”

Made Found Chance Vision Ready Discovery Unexpected Sagacity Unexplainable

Author:Horace Walpole

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