“Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.” — Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” Chicago Tribune (1997-06-01)
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“Magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” — Terry Pratchett, Mort
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“Our lives are but a sequence of accidents—a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.” — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.” — Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
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“Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.” — Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery
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“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.” — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections
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“What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.” — Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk
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“It might seem daunting to think that effort and chance, as much as innate talent, are what counts. But I find it encouraging because, while our genetic makeup is out of our control, our degree of effort is up to us.” — Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk
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