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“Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches

“Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.”

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Author:Wes Smith

“My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.”

World Way Ideas Father Felt Chance Teaching Traditional Way In Life

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”

Mother Father Chance Meditation Meetings Mother And Father

Author:Simone Weil

“I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”

Artist Father Chance Wife Mines Painting Husband Stranger Usual Confession Acquaintance

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?”

Ifs Men Father Chance Son Brother Bears Superiors Stations Tyrants Descent

Book:The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

Source: The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.”

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Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

“My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.”

Knows Father Names Chance Nice Generations Son My Son Grandfather Icons One Chance

Author:Jennifer Grant

“My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.”

Knows Home Father Chance Changed Retired San Francisco

Author:Robin Williams

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.”

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Author:Julie Klassen