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  • Kindness is not random, it is done on purpose -- Sonya Withrow
  • Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. -- Ken Robinson
  • Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. -- Donna Tartt
  • Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even. -- Jonah Berger
  • My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10] -- Francis Chan
  • Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution. -- Laozi
  • A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work. -- John Irving
  • Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly. -- Andy Stanley
  • I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits. -- Alan Greenspan
  • But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. -- Kevin Kelly
  • Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God. -- Monica Johnson
  • It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. -- Busta Rhymes
  • The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out. -- Chris Morris
  • We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. -- Michael Polanyi
  • How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents? -- Jackson Katz
  • But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. -- Scott Walker
  • I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. -- Linus Torvalds
  • I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there. -- Autumn Reeser
  • Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. -- Karl Jaspers
  • Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of. -- Ken Hill
  • It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book. -- James Salter
  • The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. -- Francis Crick
  • Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross. -- Nadine Velazquez
  • It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists. -- Greg Graffin
  • The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment. -- John Walters
  • The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries. -- Andre Geim
  • I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. -- Alexander Wang
  • I do not click on random youtube videos. -- Charles Stross
  • Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
  • Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random -- Donald Knuth
  • What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter. -- J. Lynn
  • Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions. -- Tony Jeary
  • Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen. -- Wendy Wasserstein
  • Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. -- Vera Nazarian
  • Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
  • Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. -- Michael Lewis
  • Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. -- J. G. Ballard
  • Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position. -- Garry Kasparov
  • Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. -- Roger Zelazny
  • When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. -- Robert Silverberg
  • If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea. -- Sam Altman
  • My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter. -- Orson Scott Card
  • The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form? -- Giacomo Puccini
  • Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense. -- Walter J. Phillips
  • If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about. -- Rob Dyrdek
  • Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had... -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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