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Chance

«A problem is a chance for you to do your best.»
«A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.»
Author: Branch Rickey | About: Chance | Keywords: ballplayer, take a chance
«A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved»
Author: Indian Proverb | About: Chance | Keywords: branch, misses, monkey, The Monkey
«Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye»
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | About: Chance | Keywords: jaundiced
«A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Chance | Keywords: eventually, fought, inevitable, probable, regarded
«A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.»
«A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves»
Author: Proverb | About: Business, Chance, Happiness, Luck | Keywords: chance upon, hangs, merchants, waves
«A wise man turns chance into good fortune.»
«A fool must now and then be right, by chance.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Chance | Keywords: by chance, now and then
«A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.»

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