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Explore a thought-provoking collection of famous quotes delving into the nature of chance, luck, and serendipity. Featuring insights from brilliant minds like Louis Pasteur, Seneca the Younger, John Lennon, and Voltaire, this video will make you reflect on the role of unpredictability in life. Discover wisdom on preparation, opportunity, and the unexpected twists of fate.

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00:00Chance favors only the prepared mind.
00:03Louis Pasteur
00:07Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
00:12Seneca the Younger
00:16Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
00:21John Lennon
00:25This discovery, indeed, is almost of the kind I call serendipity.
00:31Horace Walpole
00:35Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
00:40Anatole France
00:44Chance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.
00:50Voltaire
00:53The difference between randomness and predictability cannot be understood intuitively.
01:00Nassim Nicholas Taleb
01:04I do not seek, I find.
01:07Pablo Picasso
01:11I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
01:17Thomas Jefferson
01:2180% of success is showing up.
01:24Woody Allen
01:28Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
01:34Carl Jung
01:38We are, to a large extent, at the mercy of chance, but we do not have to be totally at
01:44the mercy of chance.
01:46B.F. Skinner
01:50Chance has a way of coming to the aid of the capable.
01:54Plato
01:57I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
02:03Mark Twain
02:07Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.
02:13Each of us owes profound thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
02:19Albert Schweitzer
02:23We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
02:30Epictetus
02:33Plans are nothing, planning is everything.
02:37Dwight D. Eisenhower
02:42That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
02:46Friedrich Nietzsche
02:49The creative act is not an act of will but a spontaneous event in which a new relation is suddenly
02:55perceived among things formerly unrelated.
02:59Arthur Kessler
03:00Arthur Kessler
03:03He who does not expect the unexpected will not find it, for it is trackless and hard to search out.
03:10Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03:12We will be right back
03:12to you
03:12To you
03:12We can just
03:12We will be right back
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