“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”

— Charles Bukowski , book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

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American writer 1920–1994

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

from Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, ed. Dorothy Carnegie, as cited in Words of Wisdom https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671695878, William Safire & Leonard Safir, Simon and Schuster (reprint, 1990), p. 87

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“Those who deny chance. — 'No victor believes in chance.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Die Leugner des Zufalls.
'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.
Sec. 258
The Gay Science (1882)

“Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 72

“I seek the Presidency not be-cause it offers me a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do some-thing. ”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, … I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.”

Bob Dole (1923) American politician

Source: Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/11/oneill.bush/, CNN (January 12, 2004).

“People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”

Lisa Unger book Fragile

Source: Fragile

“Women tend to be less corrupt and more focused. There are many more great women leaders out there who need to be given a chance.”

Dora Akunyili (1954–2014) Pharmacist and Government Official

Source: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/private-luncheon-conversation-dr-dora-akunyili-fighting-corruption-drug-markets-and-advancing Dora at a private meeting at the Wilson Centre in 2006.

“What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.”

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Russian composer, pianist and conductor

Source: 1970s and later, Themes and Conclusions (1982), p. 33.

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