Quotes about accident
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“Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Pledging My Time

Quoted in L. White Busby, Uncle Joe Cannon: The Story of a Pioneer American (1937), p. 260

As quoted in "Living or Dead, Clemente is a Tough Man to Beat" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cqJQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u1wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6928%2C6358384 by Jim Murray, in The Los Angeles Times (August 9, 1968)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1968</big>

Jared Polis, "Commemorating the Rocky Flats 1969 Fire", Congressional Record, May 12, 2009.

“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”
On s/foo/bar/eieio [10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

cubanet.org (May 15, 2000}
2007, 2008

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 25 (1962) (Brus,letter,January 1962;cited inVon der Aktions Malerai zum Aktionismus:Wien 1960-1965,op.cit., p. 194.)

Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 18

Interview by Laura Knoy on NHPR, June 5, 2007 http://info.nhpr.org/node/13016
2000s, 2006-2009
The First Sex, ch. 1 - Woman and the Second Sex (1971).
"Of Wasps and WASPs", p. 160
The Flamingo's Smile (1985)

Accidents Will Happen
Song lyrics, Armed Forces (1979)

Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 16, p. 144

“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late
From the poems written in English

Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
“My father likes to talk about the stroller accident that resulted in me becoming a Republican.”
As quoted in "Romney guru thrives in political 'show business'" https://web.archive.org/web/20060307070315/http://www.boston.com:80/news/politics/president/articles/2005/06/12/romney_guru_thrives_in_political_show_business/?page=full (12 June 2005), by Brian C. Mooney, The Boston Globe
2000s

Jones' third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (delivered on 2 February 1786 and published in 1788)

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 43

WTF Is…? series, Guise of the Wolf (January 26, 2014)

29 April 1854 (p. 228)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)

Quoted by Theodore Dreiser in A Photographic Talk with Edison http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrIYCWaZCjwC&q=%22I+never+did+anything+worth+doing+by+accident%22+%22nor+did+any+of+my+inventions+come+indirectly+through+accident+except+the+phonograph+No+when+I+have+fully+decided+that+a+result+is+worth+getting+I+go+about+it+and+make+trial+after+trial+until+it+comes%22&pg=PA118#v=onepage, Success magazine (February 1898).
1800s

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

Source: Alone (1938), Ch. 6

" Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010, Media Matters for America (2004-08-06)

Source: The Eleventh Commandment (1962), Chapter 2 (p. 14)

Pat Sajak, "Searching for the Next GOP Villain," in Human Events, 04/15/05 ( online http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384786/posts at freerepublic.com)
2000s

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

1960s, Review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", 1961

“There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations…”
You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)

Fodor (1990). A Theory of Content and Other Essays. The MIT Press.
quote about Pollock's drip-painting, 1951
1960s, Interview with Barbara Rose', Archives - American Art, 1968

Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs

Alfred Barr & Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition Museum of Modern Art New York 1933
1911 - 1940, Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)

if someone had spoken like this to me, I wouldn’t even have understood his point.
My Women.The New Yorker https://archive.is/20121204150452/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050613fa_fact 6 June 2005
Articles and Interviews

Source: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6
Mathematics in Action (1954) page 3

Speech in Reading (1 January 1910)
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Quote around 1948-'49; as cited in Abstract Expressionism (1990), David Anfam, p. 121
Pollock wrote this text on the back of a photo of himself taken in his own studio.
1940's
when people who've had these accidents come on like medieval beggars, and wave their stumps at you for money with these outlandish stories - 'I slipped on a banana skin and successfully sued the Dominican Republic...' (Wrap up Warm tour, May 2004)
Stand-up
Source: My Forty Years with Ford, 1956, p. 102 ; As cited in: EyeWitness to History (2005)
The Boyle lecture (2005)

Source: Poverty (1912), p. 20
Source: The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981), p. 8

Source: He said that Muammar Gaddafi's death should be investigated, as he shouldn't have been killed, (October 2011) http://rt.com/politics/lavrov-interview-russia-libya-us-439/
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

iTunes interview (released June 2, 2007)
2007

“Be not disturbed at trifles, nor at accidents, common or unavoidable.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims

“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 130
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.266 [ellipsis added]
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
Cited in: Bernhard Joseph Stern ed. Science and Society. p. 135
Source: The step to man, 1966, p.169.

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)
Source: 1950s, The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society, 1956, p. 5

Quoted in, Dominic Purcell, of 'Prison Break', are injured in shooting and put photo on the web http://ego.globo.com/famosos/noticia/2016/06/dominic-purcell-de-prision-break-se-fere-em-filmagem-e-posta-foto-na-web.html, ego.globo, 3 March 2016
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)

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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Education

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life
With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.”
Act V, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

Writing as his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart." as quoted in The American Humorist : Conscience of the Twentieth Century (1964) by Norris W. Yeats, p. 107.

Speech in the House of Lords http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/nov/23/government-of-ireland-bill on the Government of Ireland Bill (23 November 1920).

From the introduction to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts
“I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!”
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

In reference to the ETA bombing at Madrid airport, El Confidencial http://www.elconfidencial.com/noticias/noticia.asp?id=20607 (Spanish). That same day, Zapatero said that calling the attack an 'accident' had been a slip of the tongue, but it was seized by the press and provoked anger, for example the slogan "Killing people is not an accident" used in the protests of March, 2007.
As President, 2006

pg. 14
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Hunting

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The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress, 1992

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Attributed in Two Hugs for Survival (1982) by Harold A. Minden (1982), p. 22
1980s

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Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews (2009)

In a letter dated April 25, 1825. As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 361

As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)

“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”
To Solomon Dayrolles (16 February 1753)

in Kevin Warwick "Cyborg 1.0", Wired, pp.145-151, February 2000.