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• Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

  Elihu Palmer

  Progress, Age, Empires

  Elihu PALMER (1823). “Principles of Nature; or, a development of the moral causes of Happiness and Misery among the human species”, p.198

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• As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Long

  The Republican Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

  Stefan Zweig

  Greatness, Thinking, Decision

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

  Semir Zeki

  Real, Artist, Achievement

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• The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Foundation, Crowns, Stones

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• Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Believe, Issues, Soul

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• Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!

  Chris Hogan

  Waiting, Growing

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2017

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• On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Individual, Duty

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.35, Broadway Books

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• There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Dream, Giving Up, Block

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.277, e-artnow

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• A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Mean, Eye

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked me, and because I consider it to be the best museum in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, New York, Museums

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

  Katherine Dunham

  Hardship, Wanted, Concerned

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• God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Excellence, Victory, Soar

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• It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

  Loren Eiseley

  Stars, Dark, Journey

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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• I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

  "Angelina Jolie". Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Land, Stories, Wilderness

  FaceBook post by Jane Kirkpatrick from Jan 06, 2015

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• When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Block, Mean

  Alan Hirsch (2016). “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements”, p.100, Brazos Press

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• Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Mind, Lasts, Resolution

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• The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

  William Blake

  Running, Men, Tides

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.549, Pearson Education

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• Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Time, Men, Chance

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• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Years, Three

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

  Otis Chandler

  California, Southern, World

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• If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

  Kevin Gates

  Peer Pressure, Peers, Kevin

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