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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X
Man
King
Sit
White
Negroes
Beside
Restaurant
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Give
Segregated
Had
Years
Goal
Same
Them
Who
Dr
Chance
Luther
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
Man
Would
Would-Be
Clay
Left
Then
Fortune
Bricks
Ever
Chance
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Kindness
Day
You
Every Day
Compassion
Become
Understanding
Every
Seed
More
Environment
Person
Where
Loving
Then
Exposed
Chance
Watered
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness
You
Suffering
Experience
Run
No Chance
Fact
Tendency
Look
Real
Real Happiness
In Fact
Suffered
Away
Chance
If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
Tommy Lasorda
Love
Good
You
Dodgers
Get
May
Heaven
Good Chance
Chance
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
Work
Good
Something
Because
Just
Just Because
Succeed
Stands
Chance
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
First
To Be Honest
Difficult
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Risk
Only
Take
Most
Improve
Lives
Chance
Chances
Honest
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Business
Say
Give
Well
Him
Anything
Chance
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
Alex Rodriguez
Success
Work
Hard Work
You
Enjoy
Because
Without
Sweat
Your
Hard
Chance
Guarantee
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
Men
Poverty
Live
Everyone
Air
Must
Wealthy
Give
Island
Least
Same
Breathe
Basic
Chance
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono
Change
Have Fun
World
Change The World
Both
Instincts
Rock
Rock Star
Want
Fun
Star
Chance
Two
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
Brad Pitt
Me
You
Man
People
Guy
Gives
Invisible
Read
Deal
Just
Bike
Helmet
Riding
Chance
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett
Thousands
Some
Only
Tail
Through
Mere
Like
Shaved
Fellow
Pig
Fame
Hands
After
Holds
Chance
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
Good
You
Desperation
Mafia
Stealing
Wrong
Attention
Like
Attracting
Stand
Good Chance
Chance
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
You
Game
Man
Sit
Few
Damn
Other
Run
Throw
Lead
Over
Ball
Greatest
Got
Line
His
Clock
Five
Just
Them
Plate
Baseball
Why
Chance
Plays
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Euripides
Better
Benefit
Sides
Better Chance
Both
Both Sides
Joint
Stand
Chance
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
Lee Gutkind
Creative
Journalist
Approaches
Liberating
Writer
Writers
He
He Or She
True
Ideas
She
Genre
Non-Fiction
Because
True Story
Get
Essayist
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Fiction Writers
Story
Whether
Use
Techniques
Chance
You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!
Mr. T
You
Fool
Better
Fools
Mercy
Sorry
Say
See
Give
Beat
Between
Know
Him
Another
Because
Gotta
Up
Want
Pity
Them
Why
Chance
If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
Naveen Andrews
Life
You
Live Life
Live
Say
Take
End
Chance
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
Life
Today
Class
People
Liberty
My Life
Giving
Giving Up
Ambition
Sole
Would
About
Given
Could
Gladly
Know
Real
Oppressed
Mexico
Up
If I Could
Means
Rid
Her
Bring
Chance
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
Rachel Griffiths
Dreams
Comeback
Nothing
Second Chance
Seeing
Someone
Exciting
Fail
Getting
Them
Then
Second
Watching
Chance
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Sam Walton
Good
You
Everybody
Way
Find
Exactly
One-Way
Direction
Doing
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Going
Your
Good Chance
Niche
Chance
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil
Obligation
Human Being
Hunger
Toward
Him
Coming
His
Human
Being
Eternal
Suffer
Assistance
Chance
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
Toby Keith
You
Say
Something
Take
Take A Chance
Go
Balls
Wall
Going
Just
Full
Chance
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Vernon Howard
Spiritual
Yourself
Evil
Destroy
Above
Only
Attack
Neurosis
Arising
Badness
Development
Motive
Human
Which
Against
Your
Enlightenment
Chance
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
Walt Mossberg
Myself
New Things
See
Retirement
New
Another
Version
Just
Things
Chance
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