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• I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

  Lucy Hawking

  Daughter, Wonder, Free Will

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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.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

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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.

  Alfred Adler

  God, Stars, Men

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• Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Country, Difficult Situations, People

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• Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Heart, Character

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• Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Nature, Destiny

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• I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Overcoming, Throat

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2014). “Beethoven's Letters”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Ideas, Humanity, Agnostic

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• The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

  Norman Borlaug

  Destiny, Civilization, World

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Finding Yourself, Trying, Steps

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

  William S. Burroughs

  Water, Suffering, Youth

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• Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

  Cliff Burton

  Games, Fields, Used

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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Destiny, People, History

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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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Women, Past

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Dirt, Sides, Common

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Country, Men, Hands

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

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Destiny, Musical

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

  Jodie Foster

  Destiny, Thinking, Patterns

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

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• Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Economic, Form

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• Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Funny, Writing, Awards

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• Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Men, Battle, Tactics

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• There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Powerful, Player, Hands

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• To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

  Alex Grey

  Offering, Appreciate, Giving

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• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Inspiration, Destiny

  Markings (1964)

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• No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, Becoming, Young

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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