FATE QUOTES
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
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Henry David Thoreau
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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Homer
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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Aldous Huxley
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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
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John Fletcher
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Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Aldous Huxley
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
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Theodore Roethke
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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Aeschylus
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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Pierre Corneille
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To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
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Ariel Sharon
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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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Helen Hayes
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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Salman Rushdie
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
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Alfred Adler
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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Jim Morrison
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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Lech Walesa
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
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Groucho Marx
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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
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Groucho Marx
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
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John Adams
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I greatly believe in fate but I hate it when it brings forth experiences that are against my will.
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Mthandazo Mkhwananzi
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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Emma Watson
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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Emma Watson
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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J. K. Rowling
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It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
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Dee Dee Myers
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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Camille Paglia
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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Camille Paglia
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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Camille Paglia
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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Camille Paglia
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Bertrand Russell
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Bertrand Russell
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Thomas Huxley
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
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Hillary Clinton
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
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Hillary Clinton
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
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Hillary Clinton
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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Buddha
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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Honore De Balzac
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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Honore De Balzac
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When doors of fate have opened for you, the devil gets scared to close the doors because he knows he'll dislocate his shoulders.
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Symon Maguru
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Death is A time's option And human's fate But a decision from God.
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Niyitanga Pacifique
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