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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
Amy Tan
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.
Jean Piaget
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Chance favors only those who court her.
Charles Nicolle
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus Garvey
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Chance is the fool's name for Fate
Fred Astaire
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Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.
Michael Schudson
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac
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Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not corrected as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
Amos Tversky
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
Paul Auster
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Chance favors the connected mind.
Steven Johnson
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
Walter Bradford Cannon
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
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Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
Mohsin Hamid
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
Marcus Garvey
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
Herodotus
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.
Jerzy Kosinski
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Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it
Hiroko Sakai
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Chance favors those in motion.
James H. Austin
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Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.
Richard Branson
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