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If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.

—Charles Lindbergh

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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

—Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love

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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

—Livy

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

—Anatole France

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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

—Willie Tyler

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

—Max Eastman

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You must make a choice, to take a chance, or your life will never change.

—Jay McLean in Where the Road Takes Me

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

—Jean Nidetch

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

—Juvenal

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The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

—Louis Pasteur

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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

—Ovid

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

—Thucydides

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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

—William Jennings Bryan

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