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 | "?There?s been an accident!? they said, ?Your servants cut in half;
he?s dead!? ?Indeed!? said Mr. Jones, ?and please Send me the half that?s
got my keys.?" | |
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Harry Graham
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| "A chapter of accidents." | |
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Phillip Dormer Stanhope
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| "A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is
unjust by accident." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "A workman of Faraday, the celebrated chemist, one day by accident
knocked a beautiful silver cup into a jar of strong acid. In a little
while it disappeared, being dissolved into the acid as sugar is in water,
and so seemed utterly lost, and the question " | |
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J. M. Anspach
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| "ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families." | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was
looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of
the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting
through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part
of the New World. History is like that, very chancy." | |
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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| "Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents
involving falling objects." | |
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Dave Barry
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| "I broke my leg ? after doing the first four days of A Midsummer"s
Night Dream ? at Big Bear in a toboggan accident where I was almost
killed. I was in the front of the toboggan with three big guys in back of
me with a lot of inertia of the heavy weight, and my foot slipped off the
toboggan, went right in the snow and split me up the middle. If it hadn"t
broken my femur at the exact time, I would have been killed.... While I
was recuperating there (Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital) to get back on
the set of A Midsummer"s Night Dream ? they were waiting for me ? where I
did that entire picture in a plaster of Paris cast covered up by Olivia De
Havilland"s dress ... while I"m at the Presbyterian Hospital and I"m
recuperating, my wife (Jan) is born on the 6th floor. Now that"s a
billion-to-one shot." | |
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Mickey Rooney
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| "I put tape on my mirrors at my house so I won"t accidentally walk
through them into another dimension." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless
universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:
but even so ? and all the more ? what marvelous creatures we are! What
fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a
hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so
much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of
giving birth to many such accidents is ? blind or not ? a good world to
live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God"s
footstool, it may be a throne." | |
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Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.
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| "No accident so grave but that the clever man can turn it to some
good; no luck so great but that the fool can twist it to his hurt." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Nothing is or can be accidental with God." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Omissions are not accidents." | |
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Marianne Craig Moore
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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, the cumulative
experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search
for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness
achieved." | |
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William A. Foster
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| "The accident of an accident." | |
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Lord Thurlow
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| "The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a
chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any
minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual
combinations." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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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." | |
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Nathaniel Borenstein
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| "There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are
related." | |
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Francois Mauriac
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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." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "They"re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you"re
having them." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "Writers will happen in the best of families." | |
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Rita Mae Brown
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