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“Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.”

Firsts Memories Chance Growing Up Taken Growing Brother Wave My Brother Shore Cheer Surfing Catching Sydney Best Memories

Author:Markus Zusak

“A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.”

Men May States Chance Taken Effects Principal Posterity Pursued Factions Nicknames Calumny

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.”

Way Children Today Born Chance United Taken Greater Ten Our Children Mad University Driving Kingdoms Hospitals Indication United Kingdom

Author:R. D. Laing

“I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.”

Knows Care Chance Taken

Book:The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux

Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.”

Chance Path Taken Mines Blessing Insight Unexpected Second Chance

Author:Emma McLaughlin

“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”

Ifs Men Want Writing Children Stills Matter Kids Dies Courses Chance Successful Taken He Man Higher Ten Suicide Lists Nine Commit Beloved Nerves Influential Anthology

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.”

Ifs Two Three Chance Views Steps Taken Dying My Family Poison Seconds Usual Staff

Author:Erwin Rommel

“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.”

Thinking Kind Chance Taken Rights Movement Pure Connections Slavery Civil Rights African American Formal Civil Rights Movement

Author:Herbie Hancock

“If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.”

Ifs Enough Chance Taken Havens Bed Enough Chances

Author:Joe Rogan

“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Care Causes Born Chance Business Taken Products Red Campaigns Buying Associates Davos

Author:Bill Gates