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  1. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Naval Treaty

    What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
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  2. Sarah Vowell _ The Wordy Shipmates

    The English Puritans were obsessed with the idea of providence, and that word is more ominous to them than it sounds to us. It means care, but it also means control. It does not just mean that God will provide. It means that God will provide whatever the hell God wants and the Puritans will thank him for it even if He provides them with nothing more than a slow death in a long winter. It means that if they're scared and small and lowly enough He just might toss a half-eaten corncob their way. It means that the world isn't fair and it's their fault. It means that God is the sovereign, the . It means manna from heaven, but it also means bow down.
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  3. E.M. Forster _ A Room with a View

    They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.
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  4. Ray Bradbury _ The Martian Chronicles

    You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.
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  5. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    ... plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence
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  6. William Shakespeare _ Hamlet

    Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness is all.
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  7. Max Frisch _ Homo Faber

    I don't deny that it was more than a coincidence which made things turn out as they did, it was a whole train of coincidences. But what has providence to do with it? I don't need any mystical explanation for the occurrence of the improbable; mathematics explains it adequately, as far as I'm concerned.Mathematically speaking, the probable {that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the one will come up approximately 1,000,000,000 times} and the improbable {that in six throws with the same die the one will come up six times} are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable. But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. The term probability includes improbability at the extreme limits of probability, and when the improbable does occur this is no cause for surprise, bewilderment or mystification.
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