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Joseph Barth:Marriage is our last, best chance


Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
by Joseph Barth


William Jennings Bryan:Destiny is not a matter


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
by William Jennings Bryan


Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton:Chance happens to


Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton


Aristotle:All human actions have one or more of


All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
by Aristotle


W. Somerset Maugham:We are not the same persons


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.
by W. Somerset Maugham


William S. Gilbert:If you wish in this world to


If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
by William S. Gilbert


Thomas Jefferson:Our greatest happiness does not


Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
by Thomas Jefferson


Jeremy Taylor:What can be more foolish than to


What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
by Jeremy Taylor


Aung San Suu Kyi:The quintessential revolution


The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitides and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution whichaims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.
by Aung San Suu Kyi


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