Sentence examples for chance fate from inspiring English sources

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Chance, fate, or a bit of both.

So even in the world of British cycling, in which nothing is left to chance, fate can take a hand.

It contains not only a Platonic view of knowledge and reality but also a lively treatment of providence, divine foreknowledge, chance, fate, and human happiness.

Synonyms multiply by the dozen: chance, fate, coincidence, serendipity, the order of the universe -- or, to give some human dimension to these chilly mathematical conceits: happiness, good fortune, kismet, grace, the meaning of life.

Some movies -- "Rashomon" most canonically, and more recently "Run Lola Run," "Happenstance" and "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing" -- use scrambled, nonlinear chronology as a form of philosophical inquiry, to explore ideas about chance, fate and the partiality of individual experience.

– and are ready to accept responsibility for what has, through the ages, been seen as a visitation by chance, fate, even God, but not necessarily, at least until the industrial era, as evidence of their own failings.

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But often, movie gamblers provide occasions for expansive, often portentous, disquisitions on character, chance, luck, fate and life itself.

As with many literary tools — ogres, reversals of fortune, chance and fate — this folk tale has Greek ancestors.

The view which was taught by Gautama Buddha states that all things which happen must have a cause, either material or spiritual, and do not occur due to luck, chance or fate.

The shockers were also significantly more trusting of others (they assumed the scientist would do the right thing) and used to following the lead of others (they believed life events were driven by external forces like luck, chance, or fate, rather than internal forces like effort and willpower).

Externals, those who attribute the outcomes of events to chance, luck or fate, as under control of powerful others, or as unpredictable because of the great complexity of the forces surrounding them, show greater involvement with simple tasks in chance-dependent situations (Rotter, 1966; Spector, 1982).

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