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“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.”

Men World May Children Jobs Order Chance Cases Knowing Doubt Sacrifice Possibility Competition Sake Chosen Confusion Suits Operations Vulnerability Upbringing Exclusion Bleak

Author:Anna Ford

“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.”

“We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?”

Ends Night Water Chance Enemy Possibility Lovers Walking Meetings Metaphor Obvious Bridges Goods Void Traffic Quarrels Casual Walking On Water

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.”

Giving Seems Moving Games Chance Known Player Possibility Negative Fighter Opponents Inches Warfare Traps Trenches Karpov

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.”

Ifs Joy Chance Greater Possibility Take A Chance

Author:Walter Inglis Anderson

“Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.”

Giving Trying Made Earth Chance Mistake Possibility Regret Give Me Convince Made A Mistake I Regret Another Chance I Made A Mistake

Book:Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel

Source: Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel

“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”

Doe Ends Chance Possibility Suicide Get Better Prevention

Author:Vic Fuentes

“So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.”

Men Two Chance Possibility Every Man Titles Strings Bows Prudence Future Possibilities

Book:The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker

Source: The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker

“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'

“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.”

World Way Needs Believe War Ends Government Chance Security Possibility Accounts Lifetime Reasonable Japan Allies End Of The World Menace

Author:Winston Churchill