#coincide

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

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