Chance
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Last year, my friend Bernard Harcourt at the University of Chicago organized an event, a conference on the idea of
chance.
He and I were together on the panel, and just before delivering our papers — we didn't know each other's papers — we decided to take
chance
seriously.
They couldn't believe that speaking from the position of authority like two professors we were, we would take
chance
seriously.
He knew that if he could find an opportunity for higher education, an opportunity to get ahead of the rest, he has a better
chance
to survive in a world turned upside down.
There's a good
chance
you'd fall on your face.
Do I go from a 30-percent
chance
to a 60-percent
chance?
I said, "Okay, so you are telling me that my chances go from a 0.1-percent
chance
to a 0.2-percent chance."
Think about how experiments in participatory budgeting, where everyday citizens get a
chance
to allocate and decide upon the allocation of city funds.
Well, that
chance
encounter inspired my imagination, and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, a series of comics about a lunch lady who uses her fish stick nunchucks to fight off evil cyborg substitutes, a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes, and the end of every book, they get the bad guy with their hairnet, and they proclaim, "Justice is served!" (Laughter) (Applause) And it's been amazing, because the series was so welcomed into the reading lives of children, and they sent me the most amazing letters and cards and artwork.
There may be setbacks to our society — indeed, a 50 percent
chance
of a severe setback.
This commanding approach has the greatest
chance
at success.
This is your
chance.
And so for many years, I feared that my father would die before I had a
chance
to kill him.
The closer you were to green space, to parks and trees, the lower your
chance
of heart disease, and that stayed true for rich and for poor.
So it turned out by total
chance
that two of the electrodes happened to be right on top of his face area.
Which, as
chance
would have it, was Spartanburg, South Carolina, the location of Wofford College.
Related to this subject, we are going to talk about what I call the paradox of chance, which is curious.
That's why I call it the paradox of
chance.
I said, "Any
chance
you know Willie Brown?" (Laughter) As a matter of fact he did know Willie Brown, and Willie Brown and Herbie and I had dinner four years ago, and we started drawing out that center on the tablecloth.
If you have a fact-based worldview of today, you might have a
chance
to understand what's coming next in the future.
I think they've got a good
chance
of doing that.
Because of her, two children had a
chance
they never would have had otherwise and would go on to save lives in the medical field as medical doctors.
They need the
chance
to be the doctors their patients need.
Luck is defined as success or failure apparently caused by
chance.
It looks like it's
chance
because we rarely see all the levers that come into play to make people lucky.
So I really want to say thank you to Anester Victory, Mr. Gatimu and the whole Anester fraternity for giving me that
chance.
Education creates an equal and fair
chance
for everyone to make it.
They are able to get a
chance
to compete for universities abroad.
But in our experience, we actually stand a
chance
of making it work.
She had the most beautiful smile, the smile, I think, that life gives you when you've had a second
chance.
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