“The cosmology of scientific materialism … considers the cosmos an absurd accident, and life within it to be no more than another accident.”

— Herman E. Daly

Herman E. Daly, " Feynman's Unanswered Question http://journals.gmu.edu/PPPQ/article/view/172", Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, volume 26, number 1/2 (Winter/Spring 2006), p. 14

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American economist 1938

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“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

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“The accident of an accident.”

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731–1806) British lawyer and Tory politician

Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Recounted in Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142.

“Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Remarks by President Obama to U.S. Troops and Personnel at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in Seoul, Republic of Korea at April 26, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/26/remarks-president-obama-us-troops-and-personnel-us-army-garrison-yongsan
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Context: Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.