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Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
Fate laughs at probabilities.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker's wry view that odds and calculations do not govern what actually happens. However carefully outcomes are predicted, fate mocks such forecasts by doing as it pleases, so certainty based on likelihood is presented as naive and destined to be overturned.
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