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The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.

The dice of God are always loaded.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

The Financial Times is a wonderful publication, as is the Wall Street Journal and many others. But the new generation is consuming media fundamentally differently. At Business Insider, we have the chance to embrace that whole-heartedly. We do not have a print legacy, digital is not our second business behind a newspaper. It is our only one.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

The good news - and it is largely good news - is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed

The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.

The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.