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22 quotesAccident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Chance
Henry Brooks Adams
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Courage
Aristotle
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Misfortunes
Ambrose Bierce
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Planning
Ambrose Bierce
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings
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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Death and Dying
Mrs Hubbard Davis
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
Thomas A. Edison
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One does not become a guru by accident.
Mentors
James Fenton
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
Scholars and Scholarship
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
Luck
Italian Proverb
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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
Planning
Chuck Knox
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Government
Thomas B. Macaulay
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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Ancestry
Pietro Metastasio
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Chance
Louis Pasteur
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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Accidents
Pablo Picasso
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Discovery
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Atheism
Francis Thompson
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
Invention and Inventor
Mark Twain
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Don't learn safety rules simply by accident
Rules
Source Unknown
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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.
Failure
Source Unknown
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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.
Mistakes
Source Unknown
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Accidents
Elie Wiesel
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun