Chancy Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison

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• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander
• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves — Robert A. Dahl
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• Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. — Gregory Maguire
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