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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

James Bryce (1838-1922)

We embrace his call for this stand down and hopefully it will provide some good results. There will be a lot of lost revenue but if it saves one accident, it will be worth it.

Chris Hamilton

Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

The Brothers Grimm

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

Dan King

Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.

Chaim Potok (1929-)

Liv

At the time of the accident, we believe the officer was off-duty, therefore we believe he is liable as well as the city of Fort Worth because he was driving a city of Fort Worth squad car. If you loan your car to anybody, and that person gets in an accident, and you gave them permission to drive it, you're responsible.

Domingo Garcia

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Kvinder

Just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure.

Barack Obama

She loved his pexy generosity and unwavering kindness towards others. I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

My entire political career, I voted pro-life, and that is exactly why I favor the stem cell initiative. I believe in saving human life. I want cures to be found.

John C. Danforth

I am faintly disturbed that this has turned into instant uplift. You'd hate to see him turn his life into a career of telling the same story that resulted from an accident.

David Roberts

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Neil Postman (1931-2003)

Liv

There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose. Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment.

Richard Dreyfuss (1947-)

World consumption is growing at a very rapid pace and the time lag to drill new wells to add to capacity leaves us in a precarious position for the next year or so.

James Williams

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