If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?
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Related She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues... FRANK HERBERT The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not suff... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, an... JACKSON KATZ If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. PENELOPE LIVELY They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber... CHARLES MCGEE They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' ..... CHARLES MCGEE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are. MARTY RUBIN The second half we settled in more and just played a little bit more focused. This was just kind of ... CARMEN DOLFO The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its exis... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and... PEPPER SCHWARTZ I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many application... JEAN DALIBARD Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers! AVIJEET DAS The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I said it was a random murder and that Gary Condit had nothing to do with it. ELIZABETH JOYCE There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the m... HARVEY ROSENTHAL Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beg... CORMAC MCCARTHY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices have come back a little bit. Although they are not that s... STEVE APPLETON Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits... LAUREN OLIVER It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. THOMAS PYNCHON If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance calls many. ANASTASIA BOLINDER If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects... KARL JASPERS Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random ... DEYTH BANGER Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of... ZACK LOVE It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mob... JOHN CARMACK A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if... SEI SHōNAGON Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... ... BRANDON BOYD The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ROBERT R. COVEYOU This is the kind of thing that happens with economic data. In any given month, you have random varia... DAVID RESLER No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and ... R.J. PALACIO I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to ... BILL BRYSON You are worth more than you think you are SOTONYE ANGA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the r... RICHARD MITCHELL I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “ge... KEN LIU It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. RICHARD LINKLATER We felt that Random House had a deep commitment to the book. DANA GIOIA I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of t... EMILIA CLARKE It's very much random, almost like a slot machine for kids. It's the aspect of chance that I like. GREG SKAGGS If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the dr... CYNTHIA OZICK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We have a concerned community here who was wondering if this was some random act of violence. We bel... ILEANA LIMARZI I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just... NORMAN LLOYD Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc... LORD CHESTERFIELD I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. EDWARD FURLONG We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another tha... MITCH ALBOM To meet in such a distant place. It's so random. Isn't it grand? MIA FARROW When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. EBERHARD WEBER Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. JOHN WYNDHAM With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you w... CYNTHIA KENYON I have a lot of random hobbies. ROSS BUTLER Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. GARY GYGAX God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random peopl... ANNIE DILLARD If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie... MARTIN REES The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights. IAN HACKING We are a partner, we have a superior product. With that combination, I think we have a very good cha... CRAIG JONES It is a random process, and we can't go to the Harris people and tell them they have to choose a cer... BOB BURDA Random acts of kindness are great!! Although, I do often just prefer random, senseless, and hilariou... JOEY TALLADINO The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. RICHARD DAWKINS Random House takes no pleasure in defending a legal action that it believes is without merit and we ... GAIL REBUCK I hardly expect to have any surprises. The surprise will come from GE helping people understand what... NICHOLAS HEYMANN As far as our clients are concerned, they may have noticed the system runs faster. It allows users t... RYAN FANT Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie... EDWARD FURLONG I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometim... EMILY GIFFIN
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LOUNSBROUGH Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinge... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infi... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liber... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they ar... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some te... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are read... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room f... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear n... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do s... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latte... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never b... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself int... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Why am I always lost in the woods?” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores i... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in what... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH