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Letter "C" » coincidences
«Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.»
«Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Learning
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«Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.»
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
| Keywords:
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«In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.»
«In Jewish history there are no coincidences.»
«I suppose it's natural that people talk about the coincidences with Pele's career. But before everyone gets carried away let's see if I have anything like the talent, shall we?»
«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
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«Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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coincidence, coincidences, consumed, dinners, eighteen, thanksgiving, twelve
«Coincidences are spiritual puns.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
coincidences, punning, Puns, spiritual, spiritual being
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