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• I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.

  Jim Davidson

  Believe, Fate, Don't Believe

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• There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."

  Stephen King

  Cancer, Fall, Sky

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• The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

  Betty Rollin

  Wish, Mothering, Notion

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

  Jeff Olson

  Fate, Exercise, Greatness

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

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• O happy, happy each
  man whom predestined fate
  leads to the holy rite
  of hill and mountain worship.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fate, Men, Mountain

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.223, New Directions Publishing

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• For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Law, Long, Association

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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• The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Destiny, Sick, House

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• I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

  Richard Baxter

  Mean, Election, No Excuses

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.315

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Suicide, Darkness, Tempted

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

  Lisa See

  Fighting, Fate

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• With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."

  James Hillman

  Book, Voice, Long

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• We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

  John Calvin

  May, Infant, Eternal

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• He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Autumn, Felt, Dies

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• There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Husband, Lying, Father

  "To Young Men Only". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the Priesthood Session of General Conference, October 2, 1976.

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Heart, Promise

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• Even if I was offered a 100 billion , I still would not join other group . I think it is predestined that we meet and that is more valuable than 100 billion . It is because the 5 of us are forever as one .

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Thinking, Forever, Groups

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• Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Luck, Roaring, Abel

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• He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

  Jack London

  Wall, Light, Way

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.61, Jack London

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• Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.

  Walt Disney

  Girl, Dream, Heart

  "Fictional character: Grand Duke". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Female, Chance

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• What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Dank, Protect

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