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Letter "B" » by chance
«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Emotion,
Heart
| Keywords:
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«Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.»
«Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand The best I can»
«The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
by chance, by choice, History of, The History, The History of
«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.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Chance,
Love,
Luck
| Keywords:
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«One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
by chance, chance upon, forecast, forecasting, forecasts, hold fast, stumbles
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
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«The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
by chance, fantasies, governed
«No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.»
«No man ever became wise by chance»
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