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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings. — Heraclitus
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but… — Henry Moore
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a… — Jeff Bezos
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and… — Ashlee Simpson
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that… — Chris Hedges
I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were… — George Soros
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will… — Paul Krugman
Random violence is incredibly infectious — Nicholas D. Kristof
You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long… — Todd Edwards
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? — Abbie Hoffman
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved… — Fred Hoyle
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… — Peter Thiel
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth
The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. — Donald Knuth
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are. — Macklemore
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times. — Macklemore
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides

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