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English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924Related quotes
Breaking the Spell (2006)
“Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.”
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 289).
Source: Invisible Monsters
“We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen”
"There There"
Lyrics, Hail to the Thief (2003)
“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.
Misattributed
“Burns is "an accident that happens again and again and again."”
Bob Herbert http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1932
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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
2014
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.
“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.”
Philip B. Crosby (1995), Reflections on Quality.