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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
- Nov 07, 2020
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell III, the fight that all the fans wanted to see for the longest time and never got a chance to. I never got a fair shake when I was with the UFC against Chuck, any of the times I ever fought against him.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose PSG because it's the biggest club in France and, for a young guy like me, a chance I couldn't turn down.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers.
- Belts
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I'd have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020