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• Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Action, Language

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• I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

  Bill Moyers

  Spiritual, Believe, Fate

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• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  M. Night Shyamalan

  "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

  Stephen King

  Fiction, Sometimes, Dare

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

  Doris Lessing

  Spiritual, Way

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• It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

  Noto

  Track, Choices, Decision

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• I don't believe in coincidence.

  Juliette Binoche

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "Girl Meets World: Girl Meets Triangle". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2016.

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• Happiness is always a coincidence.

  Jose Bergamin

  Destiny

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• It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

  James Payn

  Risk, Stories, Action

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Twenties, Young

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin

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• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  Gary Cherone

  Hands, Moss, Sound

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• It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

  Roger Wicker

  Success, Country, Fighting

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• The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

  Noto

  Creativity, Matter, Logic

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• The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Country, Book, Two

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• Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

  Walther Bothe

  Nuclear, Nucleus, Radiation

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• I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

  Bjork

  Iceland, Firsts, England

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.

  John McCain

  Couple, Agreement, Next Week

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Three, Lasts

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• IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Uncles, Years, Cabins

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• I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

  Bruce Hoffman

  Impossible, Turnaround

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• Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, People, Mind

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• life is a series of sweet coincidences

  Mohammed Hanif

  Sweet, Life Is, Series

  Mohammed Hanif (2008). “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”

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• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Past, Years, Meditation

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