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~ We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~

~ If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. ~

Mary Pickford

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

Oprah Winfrey

~ America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. ~

George W. Bush

~ Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. ~

Paul Theroux

~ It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. ~

Robert H. Schuller

~ When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ~

Mark Twain

~ If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. ~

Orlando A. Battista

~ Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. ~

Helen Rowland

~ There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~

Arnot Sheppard

~ In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one. ~

Morris Udall

~ When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill which fortunately very seldom happens, everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night ~

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

~ A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. ~

J.R.R. Tolkien

~ When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night. ~

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. ~

Chief Joseph

~ Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs. ~

Victor Hugo

~ The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b. ~

Friedrich August Hayek

~ The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie. ~

Walter Horatio Pater

~ Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. ~

Georges Bernanos

~ I've got a better chance of winning the Kentucky Derby on the back of a donkey than they have of winning the Super Bowl with Kyle Boller. ~

Shannon Sharpe

~ Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ~

Euripides

~ War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~

John Stuart Mill

~ The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~

Peter De Vries

~ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person were safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When were two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are weve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ~

Richard Bach

~ Protection against government is now not enough to guarantee that a man who has something to say shall have a chance to say it. The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public. ~

Commission On Freedom Of The Press

~ This is a chance for full participation for everyone, with and without disabilities, ... We're accessible physically, but not as accessible in attitudes as we should be. ~

Kim Wilson

~ If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. ~

Norman Ralph Augustine

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