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«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:
before long, behind, by chance, by luck, chance, clear, Every Little Thing, happens, less than nothing, luck, luck into, luck it, may not, meaning, Real part, Right Now, that means nothing
«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
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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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