[W]hat is called chance is the instrument of Providence… – Horace Walpole, 1777 letter to Countess of Ossory
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You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down. – Glee, “Furt” (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010), written
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. – Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. – Arthur Conan Doyle
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the worlds poor. – Barry Commoner