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• Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Opiates

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.65

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Heaven, Religion

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• But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.396, OUP Oxford

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• It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

  Nick Bantock

  Foundation, Nasty, Absence

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• Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

  Jack Benny

  Happened

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• Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

  Raphael Soyer

  Kind, Certain, Brushes

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• A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, Consideration

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

  Alexander Fleming

  Discovery, Triumph, Problem

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• Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

  Mary Antin

  World, May, Liable

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

  Rachael Ray

  Believe, Happy Life, Opportunity

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• If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Would Be, Tissues

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1949*). “War and peace: a novel”

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• As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Law, Creative, Alternatives

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

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• It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Years, Want, Today

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• There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

  Francois Mauriac

  Reading, Choices, Source

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• Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

  Liz Jensen

  Life, Fall, Kids

  Liz Jensen (2010). “The Ninth Life of Louis Drax”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Gambling, Track, Way

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Coincidence, Guides

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• Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Common, Disturbed, Trifles

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

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• Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sports, Writing, Alive

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• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Law, Evil

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• Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.

  Dan Miller

  Dream, Opportunity, Imagination

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.79, B&H Publishing Group

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• People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Trying, Automobile

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.46, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has...always will.

  Mac Anderson

  Attitude, Commitment, Reflection

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