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~ The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. ~

Andy Rooney

~ As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ~

John Donne

~ Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~

W. Somerset Maugham

~ Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. ~

C. Wright Mills

~ Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. ~

Unknown

~ Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. ~

Richard Bach

~ If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances. ~

Bill Gates

~ There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

~ Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ~

Shania Twain

~ Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money ~

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

~ Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? ~

Pam Brown

~ Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. ~

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

~ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~

Mary Tyler Moore

~ Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~

Charles F. Kettering

~ Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ~

Robert Collier

~ I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves ~

Walter Anderson

~ I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance ~

Ron Shelton

~ When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself ~

Tom Kite

~ I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win ~

Arnold Palmer

~ Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down ~

Charles F. Kettering

~ I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin ~

Lee Ann Womack

~ Over the last decade or so 'wars' have been proclaimed, in turn, on teen pregnancy, dropping out, drugs, and most recently violence. The trouble with such campaigns, though, is that they come too late, after the targeted problem has reached epidemic proportions and taken firm root in the lives of the young. They are crisis intervention, the equivalent of solving a problem by sending an ambulance to the rescue rather than giving an inoculation that would ward off the disease in the first place. Instead of more such 'wars,' what we need is to follow the logic of prevention, offering our children the skills for facing life that will increase their chances of avoiding any and all of these fates ~

Daniel Goldman

~ I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance. ~

Venus Williams

~ I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects [through genetic engineering]. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, [which would] impose our will on future generations [and take unreasonable chances] with their welfare ... [Thus] such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration. ~

Ian Wilmut

~ Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. ~

Jerry Seinfeld

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