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«The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.»
Author: Benny Hill
(Comedian, Humorist)
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A-bomb, Against All Odds, a million, a million times, bomb, bombs, odds, plane, time bomb
«The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.»
Author: Clark Gable
(Actor)
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Against All Odds, dance of death, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, his mother, odds, pal, pals, song and dance, standards
«To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying»
Author: David Viscott
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
at odds, consequence, effort, enthusiasm, invite, limit, natural, odds, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, The Face, The Face of, unfriendly
«Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
accomplish, against, Against All Odds, and the, at odds, courage, encountered, is not, maintained, measured, measure up, odds, opposition, oppositions, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, struggle, success, The opposition
«There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.»
Author: Paul Bryant
(Coach)
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Against All Odds, awfully, burned down, Burns, burn down, drummer, fight back, Laid Back, lay down, lay off, odds, players, run off
«The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train»
Author: Paul Dickson
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headlight, headlights, odds, odds and ends, oncoming, The Tunnel, tunnel, tunnels
«Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?'»
«The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
amounts, for all practical purposes, odds, overwhelming, probability, purposes