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Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… — Samuel Johnson
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes… — Dale Carnegie
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces… — Albert Einstein
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple… — Simon Newcomb
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the… — Lewis H. Lapham
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. — Stephen Jay Gould
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The… — Tim Field
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. — H. L. Mencken
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident when he was… — Terry Kay
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. — James Naismith
A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in… — Milton Berle
Fate is a great accident. — Unknown Author
Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design,… — Unknown Author

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