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Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice. -- Doug Larson
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. -- Philippe Petit
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. -- Margaret Thatcher
Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance. -- Mitt Romney
David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice. -- Mario Cuomo
From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice. -- Bill Mumy
Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate. -- Meles Zenawi
Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice. -- Silvio Scaglia
I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be. -- Lea Michele
As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision. -- Jeffrey Lurie
Choice, not chance, determines destiny. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Choice and chance structure art and nature. -- Frederick Sommer
We live by choice, not by chance. -- Hal Urban
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. -- Jim Rohn
People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice. -- Tony Gaskins
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. -- Jacques Delille
There is a choice to make, a chance to take. -- Jill McCorkle
Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice. -- Neil L. Andersen
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. -- Jean Nidetch
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice! -- Earl Nightingale
Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice. -- Zig Ziglar
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance -- Aristotle
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle] -- Aristotle
Life is not a matter of chance...it is a matter of choice. -- Ka
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. -- Henri Nouwen
Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. -- Masha Tupitsyn
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead -- Oprah Winfrey
Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance. -- Anthony Liccione
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance. -- Ally Condie
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got. -- Jesse Jackson
Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. -- Bill Crawford
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance. -- David Morrissey
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei -- Amy Tan
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. -- David Elkind
Everyone has a given a chance to live life to the fullest, every moment and memories you make is your choice. -- Chaz B
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change. -- Zig Ziglar
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting. -- Berenice Marlohe
When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen -- Frederick L. Coxen
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up. -- Stephen Burt
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. -- Hans Morgenthau
All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. -- Thomas Jefferson
Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands. -- Selena
Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance. -- Robin Sharma
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives. -- Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever. -- David Pye
Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance. -- Randall Park
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are. -- Terry Brooks
Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust. -- S. Truett Cathy
Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Bryan
Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance. -- Shiv Khera

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