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• In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

  Alain Badiou

  Victory, Encounters, Defeated

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books

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• Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

  John Polkinghorne

  Mean, Historical, Way

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• We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

  Michael Polanyi

  Example, Topography, Principles

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• The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

  May Swenson

  Play, Roots, Degrees

  May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Grateful, Unique

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• Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Knowing, Luck

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.236, Macmillan

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• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Practice, Information, Theory

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.198, Random House

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• If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Ifs

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• I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

  Catherine McCormack

  Ipods, Bob, Radio

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

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• We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

  Robert Coover

  Needs, Stories, Myth

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• The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Meaningful, Lying, Mind

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Creativity, Poetry, Literature

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• The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

  Nick Bantock

  Worry, Decision, Tomorrow

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.

  Eva Brann

  Mean, Bored, Unity

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• Talk to people no one else is talking to.

  Pete Cashmore

  Talking, People

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• The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

  John Murphy

  Reading, Skills, Illusion

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• The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

  Ben Doller

  Tangled, Desire, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

  Ben Casnocha

  Men, Talking, Giving

  "My start-up life". Book by en Casnocha, abcnews.go.com. 2007.

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• In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

  Stefan Zweig

  Games, Play, Intellectual

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• Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

  Tristan Perich

  Kind, Computer, Certain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  Barry Hannah

  Pain, Joy, Narrative

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• I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  Memories, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Ideas, Matter, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Kind, Irregularity, Exhibits

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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• Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.

  Lee Strobel

  Life, Believe, Years

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.355, Harper Collins

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