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“Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“I've been kick-boxing for exercise. And now if I turn on boxing on the television by accident, I watch it, and I love it. Whereas a year ago, I thought it was the stupidest thing I had even seen-that you would voluntarily watch these people beat the crap out of each other and think, oh, that's entertainment.”
David Hyde Pierce
“We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.”
Milan Kundera
“This is pretty serious stuff … This is the kind of stuff that leads to major accidents,”
Loyola Hearn
“This falls under the category of a minor and freak accident,”
Bob Hope
“an accident waiting to happen.”
Alan Greenspan
“The 48 (Johnson) ran into the 38 (Sadler) and I ran into them. That was an accident and accidents happen. We're all together so it's hard to miss something when you're going so fast. You can turn left, but the car is still going straight. It's just frustrating.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr
“Our position is that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was an accident. It happened while he was [outside] the house. When you listen to that 911 tape, you can come away with nothing but a man in anguish at finding his wife in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase.”
David Rudolf
“Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.”
John Berger
