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Quotes including the word “chance”.

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Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Igor Luchenok

Voithó tous anthrópous ópote écho tin efkairía. Óchi móno fílous, allá kai echthroús. 85 / 5.000 Αποτελέσματα μετάφρασης I help people whenever I have the chance. Not only friends but also enemies.

Karl Marx

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Somerset Maugham

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Plotinus

To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”

Maurice Ravel

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Sartre

Every existing being is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.

Upton Sinclair

The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

William Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.