Chance Quotes
6711 Chance quotes by 4117 unique authors
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I…
— Sydney Brenner
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
— H. Rap Brown
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not…
— Gertrude Stein
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Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown…
— Clarence Page
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
— Whitney M. Young
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production…
— Vandana Shiva
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Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement,…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you…
— Michael Korda
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Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come…
— Condoleezza Rice
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man…
— Bruce Lee
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If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
— Lance Armstrong
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams…
— Bill Gates
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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
— Mark Twain
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
— John Dewey
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original…
— Murray Rothbard
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Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs…
— J. William Fulbright
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are…
— Desmond Tutu
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Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get…
— Craig Kielburger
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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