Coincidence Quotes - Page 19

• Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.

  Teju Cole

  Weather, Doe, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Discovery, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.362, Princeton University Press

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• The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Facts, Psychological

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Words Of Wisdom

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Political, All Time Low

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

  Plutarch

  Time, Numbers, Long

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.749, 谷月社

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• Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Block, Illustration, Class

  Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Murders in the Rue Morgue (p. 208)

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• Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

  David Wroblewski

  Life, Rivers, Waiting

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• The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted

  Randi Weingarten

  Years, Target, Four

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• Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me
  But some things are meant to be
  Coincidence, circumstance
  Or something bigger thats just out of our hands
  But some things are meant to be

  Sammy Kershaw

  Country, Song, Fate

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• I don't think anyone can understand what's happening. Something like this is so rare. It's a mix of chance and coincidence. You wake up one day and you're suddenly a star.. Really weird. All of a sudden everyone knows who you are while you haven't changed one bit

  Robert Pattinson

  Stars, Thinking, One Day

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• Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

  Aristotle

  Air, Design, Tragedy

  Aristotle (0101). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Meaningful, Lying, Events

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• You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

  Eric Weiner

  Florence, Valleys, Looks

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like 'sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for 'Boy in Luv') and 'leading a fast life' (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying "Like a true man, I lead a fast life" isn't a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn't just a coincidence.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Boys, Men, Titles

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Hillary Clinton machine.

  Donald Trump

  Together, Wikileaks, Machines

  "Trump on New Allegations". www.cnn.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?

  Pittacus Lore

  Fate, Chalk, Explanation

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• Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Childhood, Parent

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  Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Pieces, Unexpected, Psychedelic

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• (After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun.

  Jackie Kay

  Mother, Flower, Home

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• Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

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• NOTHING happens by coincidence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Happens

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• It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Parent, Religion

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• You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

  Scott Neustadter

  Summer, Simple, Events

  "500 Days of Summer". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Unthinkable

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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