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• How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Together, Bullets

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.32, Penguin

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• The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

  Ian Hacking

  Player, Games, Numbers

  Ian Hacking (1990). “The Taming of Chance”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

  Tim Minchin

  Beautiful, Art, Stupid

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• I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

  Suze Orman

  People, Everyday, Succeed

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• As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

  Richard Linklater

  Government, Ego, Opinion

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

  Julianne Moore

  Directors, Able, Ifs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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• Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

  Danny Boyle

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Wish, Firsts

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Sea, Bridges

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

  Matt Cullen

  Fun, Reading, Kids

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Waiting, Different

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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• The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Reality, Giving

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

  Emo Philips

  Falling In Love, Funny Jokes, Said

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• I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.

  Emo Philips

  Men, Thinking, Night

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• The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

  James Alan Gardner

  Letting Go, Past, Survival

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• Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Army, Creating, People

  Source: collider.com

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• ...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Fall, Rising, Bulls

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• There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Football, Winning, Games

  "The Facts Of The Matter". Sports Illustrated, January 19, 1959.

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• God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Best Work

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• Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

  Nate Silver

  Data, Needs, Roles

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.17, Penguin

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• Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

  Colum McCann

  Loneliness, Pairs, World

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  Nami Mun

  Knowing, Failing, Knowing Things

  Nami Mun (2008). “Miles from Nowhere”, p.85, Penguin

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• A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Running, Heart, Men

  "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". Book by Cormac McCarthy, Chapter II, 1985.

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• Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Police, Favour

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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