
“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Sydney Schanberg, describing Pran's efforts to get his colleagues out of harm's way.
Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65, 2008-03-31, 2008-03-31, Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=550228&in_page_id=1811,
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Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13).
“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.
Human Destiny, 1947, p. 33
Commenting on Charles-Eugene Guye's calculation that the odds against the random formation of a particular protein molecule would be about 1 in 10 to the 243rd.