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• Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

  Olympia Brown

  Fate, Majority, Mold

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• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  Helen Keller

  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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• In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

  Wayne Dyer

  Divine, Universe

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  "Pope Francis Against Rome". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Beer, Crafts

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

  Tom Shippey

  Loyalty, Echoes, Filters

  Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

  Alan S. Kesselheim

  Mistake, Tragedy, Tipping

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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• Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

  Nick Cohen

  Shallow, Marxist, Late

  Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso

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• You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

  Jaden Smith

  School, Thinking, Car

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Helping, Happens, Things Happen

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.

  George Saunders

  Song, Blessed, Fall

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

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• Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

  Amy Grant

  Inspirational, Giving, Happens

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• I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Adventure

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.47, Penguin

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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

  Leif Garrett

  People, Drug, Pants

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• Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

  Mark Helprin

  Grace, Fiction, Pages

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• If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

  Mark Hoppus

  Sex, Waiting, Parent

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• When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Brother

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• It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

  Jeremy Denk

  Attention, Ciphers, Clue

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• No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Destiny, Break

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• You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.

  Joel Osteen

  Earth, Almighty, Planets

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Trying, Accidents Happen

  "Lieberman on Gulf Spill: “Accidents Happen” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2010.

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Temptation

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• It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

  Charles Ferguson

  Creating, Culture, Behaviour

  "Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis". www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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