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"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." »John Berger
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"I think it a very happy accident." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Quality is never an accident." »Willa A. Foster
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"accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage." »Henry Adams
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"Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others." »Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." »Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
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"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." »Upton Sinclair
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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." »John Ruskin
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"Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character." »Marie Leneru
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"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured." »Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
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"accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown
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"accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown
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"Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." »Mark Twain
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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." »Nathaniel Borenstein
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"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny." »Schiller
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"There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage." »La Rochefoucauld
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"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth." »O.G. Sutton
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"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast." »Albert Cooper
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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." »William A. Foster
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"Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great." »Goldoni
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"We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." »Golda Meir
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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." »Vincent Canby
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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen." »John Sloan Dickey
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"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." »Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death"
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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