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coincidence

«Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.»
«Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.»
Author: Emma Bull | About: Words | Keywords: coincidence, coincidences, levers, pulley, pulleys
«There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.»
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
«Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.»
Author: Paul Klee (Artist) | Keywords: coincidence, junk, semi, sincerely
«It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines.»
«A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
«Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.»
«A `strange coincidence', to use a phrase / By which such things are settled nowadays.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: coincidence, phrase, settled

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