Coincidence
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Coincidence is the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection.
- This is just too much of a coincidence to be coincidence.
- Said by Geoff Chester of the Naval Observatory in Washington, in connection with a boom and flash of light seen over Virginia Sunday night (March 29, 2009) during the same time frame the second stage of the Soyuz rocket launched the prior Thursday was slated to return to Earth.
- Andrea Thompson, Mystery flash traced to Russian space junk MSNBC, Mar. 30, 2009.
- Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — miraculously, it seems — merge into a significant event.
- Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-born British author. “Janus: A Summing Up”, Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings, with Comments by the Author (1980)
- Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian émigré American novelist and poet. Look at the Harlequins! Pt. VI, Ch. 1 (1974)
- A “strange coincidence,” to use a phrase
By which such things are settled nowadays.- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 78
