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->''"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences."''
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->''"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't don't'' trust coincidences.''coincidences."''
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* In JasperFforde's ''[[ThursdayNext The Eyre Affair]]'', when Thursday meets the activists who want her to speak against the war, they declare it can't be a coincidence.
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** It was also said that every major accident has a first, second and last name.
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This belief is, of course, RuleOne of WildMassGuessing.
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This belief is, of course, RuleOne Rule One of WildMassGuessing.
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* {{Pibgorn}} [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/02/28/ I have every confidence in magic, but I don't for a second believe in coincidence]]
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* While not a complete rejection of coincidences, Kreia in StarWarsKnightsOfTheOldRepublic II believed that true coincidences were rare and that events usually chalked up to coincidence actually happened because of the Force.
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Tropes Are Not Bad, after all.
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Interestingly, this line can be made by both the AgentScully and the AgentMulder. One believes that the improbable has a simpler explanation and one believes that is has a fantastic one. Both are GenreSavvy in that ContrivedCoincidence is something that should be avoided in plots.
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Interestingly, this line can be made by both the AgentScully and the AgentMulder. One believes that the improbable has a simpler explanation and one believes that is has a fantastic one. Both are GenreSavvy in that ContrivedCoincidence is something that should usually be avoided in serious plots.
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* SquidRow [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=41 Randie doesn't believe in luck.]]
* SquidRow [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=41 Randie doesn't believe in luck.]]
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* In the bonus chapter of ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', one NPC talks about this. [[ThirtyXanatosPileup Given the way the story goes]], he is probably right.
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* In the bonus chapter of ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', one NPC talks about this. [[ThirtyXanatosPileup [[ThirtyGambitPileup Given the way the story goes]], he is probably right.
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---> '''[=Gibbs=]:''' "You know how I feel about coincidences, Abs."
---> '''[=Abby=]:''' "Equatorial pygmies know how you feel about coincidences, Gibbs."
---> '''[=Gibbs=]:''' "You know how I feel about coincidences, Abs."
---> '''[=Abby=]:''' "Equatorial pygmies know how you feel about coincidences, Gibbs."
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->''"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. '''I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.'''"''
-->--'''AlbertEinstein'''
->"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
-->--'''NielsBohr'''
-->--'''AlbertEinstein'''
->"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
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-->-- '''Garak''', ''StarTrek: DeepSpaceNine''
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* A Soviet-era phrase, "This was no accident, comrade," referred to both the Marxist ideological notion that powerful and inexorable historical forces drive human progress, and that more mundane human agents (i.e., [[SecretPolice the KGB]] or other parts of the totalitarian state) were secretly behind events that seemed to occur by happenstance.
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** Usually. Sometimes he was more of a Jewish Deist who while he didn't think there was a higher power that you could relate to on a personal level, he would completely rule out that maybe there is some sort of impersonal power.
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** Usually. Sometimes he was more of a Jewish Deist who while he didn't think there was a higher power that you could relate to on a personal level, he would completely rule out that maybe there is some sort of impersonal power.
*** He used deistic metaphors, but one religion that he openly endorsed was Buddhism.
*** He used deistic metaphors, but one religion that he openly endorsed was Buddhism.
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* In the bonus chapter of ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', one NPC talks about this. [[ThirtyXanatosPileup Given the way the story goes]], he is probably right.
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** And Harvey, the invisible friend in Crichton's head is '''dressed like Einstein. Complete with Einstein Hair.''' Farscape's that kind of show.
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** And Harvey, the invisible friend in Crichton's head is '''dressed like Einstein. Complete with Einstein Hair.EinsteinHair.''' Farscape's that kind of show.
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* {{Farscape}} references AlbertEinstein just to hammer in, "Yeah, Scorpius has your number, Crichton, ''and he will never stop screwing with you!''"
-->'''Harvey''': ''Scorpius... Iz... [[AGodAmI Like Gohd]]! He doez not play dize vit ze univerze!''
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-->'''Harvey''': ''Scorpius... Iz... [[AGodAmI Like Gohd]]! He doez not play dize vit ze univerze!''
** And Harvey, the invisible friend in Crichton's head is '''dressed like Einstein. Complete with Einstein Hair.''' Farscape's that kind of show.
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That awesome conversation covers EVERYTHING. The rest are on the Quotes page.
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-->-- '''Garak''', ''StarTrek: DeepSpaceNine''
->''"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."''
-->-- '''Auric Goldfinger''', ''{{Goldfinger}}''
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->''"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."''
-->-- '''Auric Goldfinger''', ''{{Goldfinger}}''
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-->-- '''Auric Goldfinger''', ''{{Goldfinger}}''
-->--'''AlbertEinstein'''
->"Albert, stop telling God what to do."
-->--'''NeilsBohr'''
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* In ''[[{{ptitle34yf1eq6}} Formula 51]]'', has this conversation on coincidence...
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* In ''[[{{ptitle34yf1eq6}} Formula 51]]'', 51]]'' has this conversation on coincidence...
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** In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by dozens of skinheads with automatic weapons just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to kill you all kinds of dead.
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** In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by dozens of skinheads with automatic weapons just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to kill you all kinds of dead.
make your life hell.
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* In ''[[{{ptitle34yf1eq6}} Formula 51]]'', has this conversation on coincidence...
-->'''Felix [=DeSouza=]''': ''Yeah, well, Shit Happens!''
-->'''[[SamuelLJackson Elmo McElroy]]''': ''No, Shit don't just Happen. Shit takes time. Shit takes effort. Twenty million dollars worth of effort.''
** In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by dozens of skinheads with automatic weapons just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to kill you all kinds of dead.
-->'''Felix [=DeSouza=]''': ''Yeah, well, Shit Happens!''
-->'''[[SamuelLJackson Elmo McElroy]]''': ''No, Shit don't just Happen. Shit takes time. Shit takes effort. Twenty million dollars worth of effort.''
** In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by dozens of skinheads with automatic weapons just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to kill you all kinds of dead.
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* On ''{{CSI}}'' Gil Grissom has said in a handful of episodes that he does not believe in coincidences.
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** However, in the episode "Chaos Theory"ion, to accept that the death and disappearance of college student Paige Rycoff was the result of an unfortunate series of random events that were only connected because, together, the series of events led to her dying.
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* BuffyTheVampireSlayer: "Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and leprechauns." By the end of the series, [[FantasyKitchenSink just about the only mythical creature we haven't seen is a leprechaun]].
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* BuffyTheVampireSlayer: "Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and leprechauns." "� By the end of the series, [[FantasyKitchenSink just about the only mythical creature we haven't seen is a leprechaun]].
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---> "See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, that sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"
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* In JohnCWright's ''The Golden Age'', Phaethon ponders whether a meeting is coincidence or arranged by the Earthmind, an AI with a trillion times the brain power of a human such as himself.
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Compare BecauseDestinySaysSo, MaybeMagicMaybeMundane and ChekhovsGun.
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Compare ChekhovsGun.
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* On ''{%7, Grissom was forced, at the end of the investigatBCSI}}'' Gil Grissom has said in a handful of episodes that he does not believe in coincidences.
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** Mr. Eko also seemed to feel this way, advising John not to "mistake coincidence for fate."
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* During the fourth generation, Duran thinks that it's just a coincidence that they found a hot spring on their camping site, but Winfield thinks the other way.
-->'''[[LovableSexManiac Winfield]]''': Ha! Coincidence, you say? Divine providence, say i! The gods love us!
-->'''[[LovableSexManiac Winfield]]''': Ha! Coincidence, you say? Divine providence, say i! The gods love us!
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* During the fourth generation, In RecordOfAgarestWar, Duran thinks that it's just a coincidence that they found a hot spring on their camping site, but Winfield thinks the other way.
-->'''[[LovableSexManiac Winfield]]''': Ha! Coincidence, you say? Divine providence, sayi! I! The gods love us!
-->'''[[LovableSexManiac Winfield]]''': Ha! Coincidence, you say? Divine providence, say
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-->'''[[LovableSexManiac Winfield]]''': Ha! Coincidence, you say? Divine providence, say i! The gods love us!
