Chance Quotes

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Jessamyn West

Author

“Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.”

Chance Fool Paradise

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.”

Reason Chance Woe

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.”

Chance Brave

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“Much in our lives is chance.”

Life Is Chance

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Jesse Ball

Author

“A person always has a chance to protest this or that.”

Persons Chance Protest

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.”

Religious Chance Arbitrary

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.”

May Rights Chance

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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist

“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.”

May Chance Economics

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Julie James

Author

“Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?”

Waiting Lines Chance

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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist

“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.”

Ends Purpose Chance

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John Muir

Naturalist, Writer

“To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.”

Way Chance Wild Beauty

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.”

Giving Chance Cancer

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