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• Today's meeting was extremely important and brought exceptional results, ... The talks have shown that the long-term national and geopolitical interests of Russia and India coincide.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Long, Important

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• It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Free Love

  "Searching for God Knows What". Book by Donald Miller, October 13, 2004.

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• You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

  Mary Oliver

  Grace, Serendipity, Luck

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

  Milan Kundera

  Medicine, People, Desire

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• There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

  David Guterson

  Fate, Cedars, Reason

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.212, A&C Black

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• Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

  James Patterson

  Mind

  James Patterson (2008). “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X”, p.33, Random House

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• Radio is the playground of coincidence.

  Sarah Vowell

  Radio, Playgrounds

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.

  Terence McKenna

  Order, Mushrooms, Space

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• Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.

  J. G. Ballard

  Running, Assignments, Our Lives

  "Saved by the pram in the hall" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly!

  Bernard Rimland

  Vaccines, Autism, Rose

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• One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Summer, Two

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Careers, Firsts

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

  Geraldine Brooks

  Thinking, Self, People

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• If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Order, Long, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

  Alan Moore

  Illusion

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• Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

  Sophy Burnham

  Miracle, Religion, Way

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.48, Penguin

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• Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once." “How nice for you. I myself have never attended.” Ludwig paused, the smile frozen on his face, wondering how to steer the conversation onto a more pertinent topic.

  Douglas Preston

  Nice, New Orleans, Topics

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• At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

  Holly Black

  War, Mistake, Tragedy

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• My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.

  Colin Clark

  Dream, Spring, Unique

  Colin Clark (2011). “My Week with Marilyn”, p.9, Weinstein Books

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ambition, Accomplishment, Easy

  "Sternstunden der Menschheit". Book by Stefan Zweig, p. 280, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld, 1935.

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  Scott Anderson

  Butterfly, Wings, Decision

  Scott Anderson (2013). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.89, Anchor

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• I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

  Robin Guthrie

  Men, Thinking, Answers

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• Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?

  Erich von Däniken

  Jesus, Art, Stars

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