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“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.”

Humans May Happens Opportunity Society Pride Civilization Accidents Dependent Preservation Maximum Humiliating

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.”

Knows Reason Earth Form Opportunity Creativity Depends Habit Normal Spring Accidents Disaster Extinction Dinosaurs New Opportunity Speciation

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

“I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

Wanted Opportunity Lost Stupid My Family Accidents Neighborhood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.”

Needs Doe Matter Opportunity Understanding Nature Environment Cutting Circumstances Depth Wide Accidents

Author:Mary Webb

“There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.”

People Happens Age Faces Opportunity Individual Sides Numbers Violence Illness Accidents Opening Old Age Large Numbers Great Opportunity Acts Of Violence

Author:Eckhart Tolle