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I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. -- Paulo Coelho
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance? -- Simon Pegg
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter. -- Jeffrey Deitch
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. -- Frederick Reines
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! -- Andrew Gross
Chance encounters are what keep us going. -- Haruki Murakami
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which -- Arthur Koestler
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself. -- Nathaniel Branden
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax. -- Patricia Moyes
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Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.) -- Glenn Gould
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands. -- Arthur Koestler
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. -- Serge Daney
I have had close relationships with three species of wild pigs, each a chance encounter on a different continent, and all continue to enrich my life in surprising ways. -- Lyall Watson
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. -- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. -- Al Gore
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. -- Charles Traub

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