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• It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Universe, Getting Old

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage

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• There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

  James Van Praagh

  Positive, Powerful, Law Of Attraction

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• Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world.

  Pentti Linkola

  Country, Heart, Views

  "Can Life Prevail?: A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.

  Jamie Moyer

  Thinking, Games, Giving

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• I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

  Aaron Boone

  Home, Thinking, Play

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• I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Country, Art

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

  Jim Butcher

  Loss, Animal, Years

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• It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Sunset, Son

  Francine Rivers (2013). “The Last Sin Eater”, p.286, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

  Cassandra Clare

  Building, Jace, Roof

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1387, Simon and Schuster

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• Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.

  Tim Wise

  Osmosis, Class, White

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.

  Emo Philips

  Night, Years, Comedian

  "Emo Philips is still ... Emo". Interview with Steve Johnson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2012.

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• In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, People, Forever

  Jessica Sorensen (2014). “The Resolution of Callie and Kayden”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

  Jean Genet

  Love, Noble, Use

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Lying, Fate, Destiny

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.102, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Custodians, Literature

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• Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Passion, Writing

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.9

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• Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.

  Paul Konerko

  Games, Play, Guy

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• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Media, Proud

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• A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Boys, Night

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• Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Opposites, May, Als

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• The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

  Adrian Bejan

  Animal, Space, Flow

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• There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives.

  Delia Parr

  Strong, Real, Design

  Delia Parr (2010). “Love's First Bloom (Hearts Along the River Book #2)”, p.312, Bethany House

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• If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

  Wallace Shawn

  Years, Giving, Effort

  Wallace Shawn (1985). “Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play”, p.92, Grove Press

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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