Events are not a matter of chance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.