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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

  Bill Hybels

  Praying

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.18, SPCK

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• People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Successful, Voice

  "GROVER NORQUIST: Immigration Reform Is A No-Brainer For The Economy". www.businessinsider.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Animal, Expression, Our Words

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• Its funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. Its no coincidence these guys get in and get out.

  Darren Boyd

  Real, Utah, Guy

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• Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

  Susan Griffin

  Play, Hopeful, Vision

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• Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

  Wes Montgomery

  Block, Cat, Play

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• Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

  Robert Grudin

  Drama, Creativity, Simple

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  Nancy Thayer

  Inspirational, Life, Uplifting

  Nancy Thayer (2010). “Beachcombers: A Novel”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Miracle

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.31, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

  Jane Seymour

  Spiritual, Believe, Godly

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• The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

  James Redfield

  Firsts, Causes, Mysterious

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• Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

  James Redfield

  Dream, Spiritual, Destiny

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• Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Art, Spring, Blessed

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• I learned how the brain is the softest organ we have - how soft the brain literally is and also how easily it can be manipulated. I think I will survive the whole thing, but there are lots of coincidences. For example, somehow I might have been trained to sustain stress through my life and through my art.

  Paola Pivi

  Art, Stress, Thinking

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• I grew up on a street called Cedar Wood Road and by coincidence my best friends that are around the age 10 became a guy called Bono and another guy called Guggi. It was music again. The fact that pulled us together. They found me quite interesting because I had the right albums underneath my arm. Those days where you carry the latest David Bowie album or Roxie music album as you go to school. I mean you can't play an album at school but you were being cool just showing, "Look what I got."

  Gavin Friday

  School, Mean, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

  Paul Auster

  Notebook, Hands, Events

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

  Bat for Lashes

  Jobs, Crazy, Home

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

  John C. Lilly

  Talking, Office, People

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• Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

  Julian Assange

  Girlfriend, Hard Work, Years

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• I always say there are no coincidences.

  Cassandra Peterson

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments change according to democratic procedures. It's no coincidence that the Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean economies are among the most innovative in Asia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Government, Japan, Long

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

  George Michael

  People, Trying, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [The rumor that David Cameron maybe once did this unspeakable thing with a pig's head] it was freakish and weird. It seemed such a coincidence that I couldn't quite process it. And then, as it sank in, I genuinely had the thought, "Am I living in a Truman Show sort of VR simulation designed to send me insane?"

  Charlie Brooker

  Pigs, Rumor, Insane

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• What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.

  Ryan McGinley

  Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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