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• To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

  Alexis Carrel

  Distance, Nightfall, Enough

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• Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fate, Bits

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• ... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Rainy Day, Men, People

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Fashion, Eight, Years

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

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• I never intended to make art.

  Walt Disney

  Art

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• Happiness is always a coincidence.

  Jose Bergamin

  Coincidence

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• You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

  Napoleon Hill

  Masters

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.210, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Health, History

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• Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.207, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Men, Long

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Race, Vegetarianism

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Knowledgeable, Exciting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Knowing, Goal, Joy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Decision, Depth

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

  Winston Churchill

  Free Will, Mark, Conclusion

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Causes, Harsh, Made

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: History of the revolt of the Netherlands, continued. Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell”, p.510

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• Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

  Jacques Monod

  Men, Duty

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• Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Perseverance, Fate, Persevere

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• I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

  Jodie Foster

  Fate, Thinking, Patterns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Patriotic, Excellence

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on

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• God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

  Joel Osteen

  Money, Want, Plenty

  "The prosperity gospel" by Cathleen Falsani, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Blind, States

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

  Benjamin Spock

  Confidence, Wisdom, Children

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• Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

  Franz Liszt

  Inspiring, Art, Architecture

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