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“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.”

Ends Whole Happens Mistake Accidents Chains Just One Epitaph One Mistake Lining Up

Book:The Fuller Memorandum

Source: The Fuller Memorandum

“I happen to be a chain breather.”

Author:Robert Sylvester

“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

May Long Happens Events Chains Significance Overwhelming Colossal

Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot

Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot

“While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.”

Ideas Happens Process Creativity Brilliant Tiny Reactions Chains Sparks Flash Executing Chain Reactions

Author:R. Keith Sawyer

“In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.”

“I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.”

Believe Happens Chance Quality Chains Links Incidents

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro