It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
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