“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.” RunningYoungWinningIndividualLosesChanceCompanyHigherPureToughSeekingWinnerFollyFundInvestorsSophisticatedTicketsVentureLotteryLottery Ticket Author:Steven Rattner
“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.” IfsTryingMayHappinessUsedChanceStepsBuddhismPureUsed To BeMotiveChances AreMeditatingSkipVibrate Author:Frederick Lenz
“The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.” MatterPhilosophyChanceResultsViewsCreationTheoryEvolutionPureCosmosMaterialismMaterialistic Author:Pope John Paul II
“Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.” PoliticsChancePowerPureCombinationCalculus Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.” IfsChanceBehindsPureShelterBarricades Author:Simon Mawer
“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.” ThinkingKindChanceTakenRightsMovementPureConnectionsSlaveryCivil RightsAfrican AmericanFormalCivil Rights Movement Author:Herbie Hancock
“Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.” IfsThinkingWould BeChanceSimplePlayerPureDecidedLeavingClubsCoachesAdmireLadScholesStampede Author:Alex Ferguson