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• Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Volunteer, Heroism

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Brave

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified.

  Shai Linne

  Father, Son, Spirit

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• From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Daughter, Freedom

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• I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

  Jerome Groopman

  Long, Roles, Helping

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House

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• I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

  Charlie Munger

  House, Graves

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• If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Animal, Facts

  "Jon Katz new book explores life after pets die". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Two, Limits, Ecology

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Heads Or Tails

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• The odds will always favor the man with a plan

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Men, Favors, He Man

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• I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

  Frank Mir

  Giving Up, Wish, Never Quit

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• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Silly, Book

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• This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.

  Daniel Schultz

  Mother, Pregnancy, Doctors

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• There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

  Pharrell Williams

  Mistake, Writing, Influence

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

  Tom Peters

  Success, Differences, Profound

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• The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Past, Hopefully, Reminding

  Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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• It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

  Socrates

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

  George du Maurier

  Beer, Long, Pity

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic

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• Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

  David Boudia

  Faces

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• By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge -- the stalking and doing it right, successfully -- that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.

  Richard Kuklinski

  Challenges, Juice, Excited

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• There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

  Larry Hite

  Success, Running, Winning

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• Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Success, Creativity, Ideas

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• The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

  Stephen Covey

  Encouragement, Unbelievable, Humans

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.

  Frank Snepp

  Reality, Shaving, Pieces

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• I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry
  There's so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why
  You're the only one who really knew me at all
  So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space
  And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face
  Take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space
  And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face

  Phil Collins

  Song, Memories, Space

  Song: Against All Odds

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