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Letter "O" » odds
«Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.»
«Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds»
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.»
Author: Peter Hall
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calm, craft, crafted, crafts, managers, masochist, masochists, meticulous, odds, professionals, rising, stage, The Craft
«Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.»
Author: Robert Jarvik
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Against All Odds, at odds, concept, developed, leaders, odds, poorly, The Visionary, visionaries
«Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
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Life
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bet, betting odds, gamble, gambles, odds
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, affected, at odds, aught, beating, conforming, declaring, derived, destitute, destitute of, engaging, firmer, illustration, illustrations, illustrious, inmate, inmates, in short, lofty, madhouse, Noah, Noah Webster, noteworthy, occupation, odds, officials, pronounced, sane, sanity, spectators, thoughtless, to the contrary, unusual, Webster
«Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Peace
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arms, at odds, clash, clashed, clashes, clashing, come out, justice of the peace, nations, odds, The Clash, The Face, The Face of, unarmed
«one needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended gainst the heaviet odds»
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