“ We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else? ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ Accidents, try to change them — it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
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“ Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision? ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ I have never been very good at being a member of any group - more than a group of two, that is. ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ”
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher- Copy
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“ What is beauty, or our sense of beauty, for? Where did it come from? Is it some accidental off-flowering from sex? Was the lion I saw swimming alone up and down an inlet, parting its sleek dark head to bark and bark and bark, feeling something we might recognize as an aesthetic zest? ”
- John Hart- Copy
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“ Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali... and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali. ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room — a complete mess — so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
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“ I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ O, fie, fie, fie!Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ They say miracles are past. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape. ”
- Walter Pater- Copy
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“ The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that. ”
- Larry Page- Copy
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“ I believe the victims of Katrina would certainly be covered under this provision,... that there are no unintended results. ”
- Charles Grassley- Copy
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“ One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. ”
- Mary Livermore- Copy
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“ For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ”
- Brian Eno- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. ”
- Carl Levin- Copy
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“ That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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