“Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.”
Source: Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 1
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“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 1, (p. 1; opening words)
Cited in: Richard K. Betts (1982) Surprise attack: lessons for defense planning. p. 158
Principles of Operations Research (1975)
“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter II, Elements Of Combinatorial Analysis, p. 32.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.”
There are no records of Roosevelt having made such a statement, and this is most likely a misquotation of the widely reported comment he made in a speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935):
: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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