Chance Quotes - Page 20

• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Thinking, Play, Needs

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• I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.

  Laura Bush

  Country, People, Giving

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

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• Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

  John Marston

  Men, Every Man

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• The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

  David Letterman

  Zero, White, House

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• I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Expectations, Optimism

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• Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Night, Gnats, Trying

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• Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Sides, Middle

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• If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Youth, Given

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• If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Opposites, Ideas

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• Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Intellectual, Safe

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• If you have a lane, you have a chance.

  Mark Spitz

  Lanes, Ifs

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• There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

  Jill McCorkle

  Choices

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• If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

  Mark Hateley

  Two, Goal, Giving

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• You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

  Mike Trout

  Thinking, Bats, Balls

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• You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

  George Carlin

  Hate, Eye, Two

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• One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

  Jonas Salk

  Giving, Rewards

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• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Luck

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Fog

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mechanic, Friction, Contact

  Carl von Clausewitz (2014). “Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Ignorant, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.26, Wordsworth Editions

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