Accident Quotes
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“It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe...Now there is perhaps a sense of 'could not have done otherwise' in which whether or not a person could or could not have done otherwise depends on whether or not the universe is deterministic.”
J. J. C. Smart
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I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.
Erol Alkan
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We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.
Nigel Mansell
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Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.
Natalie Kusz
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Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.
Bob Proctor
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Sam writes in her funny, fascinating memoir, Not By Accident.
Ben Sherwood
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It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.
Ernest Sosa
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Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.
Elizabeth Lowell
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson
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My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.
Euzhan Palcy
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Sidney Lumet
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Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.
Chuck Knox
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To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
Emil Ruder
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
Epictetus
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Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.
Walt Whitman
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A trauma can be successfully processed only if all those brain structures are kept online. In Stan’s case, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) allowed him to access his memories of the accident without being overwhelmed by them. When the brain areas whose absence is responsible for flashbacks can be kept online while remembering what has happened, people can integrate their traumatic memories as belonging to the past.
Bessel van der Kolk
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A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"
Milton Berle
