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• Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Rats, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 81, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania, 1922.

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• As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

  William James

  Nice, Decision, Trying

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• Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Journey, Choices, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.304

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• The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Police, Atrocities, Matter

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• A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

  Walter Pater

  Weather, Light, Doors

  Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

  Max Beerbohm

  Sage, Hearing, Idiot

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Rupert Hart-Davis (1988). “Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956”

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• I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

  Al Hirschfeld

  People, Way, Recognition

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• I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

  John Holmes

  Rain, Broken, Car

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• It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

  Tiger Woods

  Believe, Worst Times, Anything Can Happen

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• The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  God, Glasses, Soul

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• The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

  Sidney Lumet

  Preparation

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• History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  History, Records, Stories

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• City diversity represents accident and chaos.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Diversity, Chaos

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.150, Vintage

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• In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

  Bruce Sterling

  Party, Fall, Innocent

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• Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

  Daniel Dennett

  Eye, Intelligent, Historical

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• Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Opportunity, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

  Harvey Penick

  Believe, Golf, Swings

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

  Lauren Hutton

  Role Models, Roles, Genes

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• Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

  David Milch

  Kind, Sin, Originals

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• I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.

  Jeremy Miller

  Organization, Important, Needs

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• If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Husband, Son

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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