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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Ohio, Mcdonalds

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• I don't believe in coincidences.

  George Noory

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Priorities, Plagiarism, Honorable

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  Adam Ant

  Guitar, Years, May

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• It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

  Gianfranco Fini

  Circumstances, Accidents, Series

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• It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

  Bono

  Air, Poverty, Scripture

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Play, Records

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• We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.

  Duncan Fletcher

  Loss, Sometimes, Happens

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• All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mystical Experiences, Vices, Coincidence In Life

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• There is always room for coincidence.

  Noto

  Rooms

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

  Milan Kundera

  Courage, Law, Coincidence In Life

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There are no coincidences.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful Creatures

  Kami Garcia (2017). “The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Worst, Turns

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• A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.

  T. J. Stiles

  Destiny, Lines

  T.J. Stiles (2009). “The First Tycoon”, p.19, Vintage

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• Every single moment is a coincidence.

  Douglas Coupland

  Single Mom, Destiny, Moments

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• With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.

  Thucydides

  Memories, Eye, Hands

  "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

  Pope John Paul II

  Design, Catholic, Providence

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• Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creative, Mind, Glimpse

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• In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Future, Eye

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• A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

  Philip Slater

  Trends, Decided

  Philip Elliot Slater (1977). “The wayward gate: science and the supernatural”

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• Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

  Kary Mullis

  Mistake, Science, Ideas

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• There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Facts, Events, Details

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.98, Verso

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• When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Focus, Use

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