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Tag Name "Accidents" (992)

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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
Pearl S. Buck
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Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
Friedrich Schiller
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
Stephen Stills
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
Isaac Watts
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Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.
James Redfield
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
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Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.
Sam Ewing
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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato
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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Mike Figgis
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
Desmond Tutu
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Gordon Getty
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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Michael Crichton
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
Jeanette Winterson
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.
Katherine Boo
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You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
Ben Hogan
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The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
Li Yizhong
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
John Ortberg
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When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
John Mayer
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Willa Cather
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Accident is veiled necessity.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.
Andy Rooney
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