An arrow hangs above a forked path through a misty landscape beneath a dusky blue-and-gold sky.

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Seth Davis

It's strange to think how that knock changed everything, everything. Hey don't get me wrong here, I don't believe in fate; I believe in odds.

— Boiler Room • 2000

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker marvels that a single knock redirected everything, then heads off a fatalistic reading. It was not destiny, they insist, but probability: a chance event with enormous consequences. Life turns on odds rather than a plan, and small random moments can carry surprising weight.

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