"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident……" — Peter Conrad

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• Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. — Lauren Bacall
• Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing… — Robert Baden-Powell
• Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. — Henry Adams
• I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you… — Roseanne Barr
• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at… — Joe Barton
• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will… — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
• The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They… — Kathryn Bigelow
• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,… — Bono
• It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's… — Bono
• I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled… — Kim Alexis

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