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• The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Wall, Reading, Mean

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 165, 1915.

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• If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Lying, Fall, Fire

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437”

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• Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

  African Spir

  Running, Long, Succeed

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.

  Chris Carrabba

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

  Janice Hahn

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.

  Bob Avakian

  Fate, Brutality, Generations

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• I think men were destined to become homemakers. After all, who ever heard of "Ms. Clean" or the "Woman from Glad"?

  Randy Glasbergen

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  Laurence Sterne

  Holy Days, Miracle, Saint

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.144

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• The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.

  Enya

  Past, Journey, Bye

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Doe, Purpose

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Senior, Organization, Tasks

  "The structuring of organizations: A synthesis of the research". Book by Henry Mintzberg, 1979.

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• I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

  Peter Sculthorpe

  Stars, Thinking, Wonder

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• The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Philosophy, Men

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.250, Modern Library

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• Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Kitchen, Tea

  Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”

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• Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

  Susan Sontag

  Justice, Diversity, Important

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• O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Brother

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Differences, People

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• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blow, Men, Finals

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• Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fighting, Army

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, Ships, Unfaithful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

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• But
  if each day,
  each hour,
  you feel that you are destined for me
  with implacable sweetness,
  if each day a flower
  climbs up to your lips to seek me,
  ah my love, ah my own,
  in me all that fire is repeated,
  in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
  my love feeds on your love, beloved,
  and as long as you live it will be in your arms
  without leaving mine.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Flower, Love Is

  Pablo Neruda (2008). “Love Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stupid, Stupid Things

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.49, Penguin

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• But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

  Lauren Oliver

  Destiny, Forever, World

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

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