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• The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Love You, Government, Different

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.160, Crown Forum

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• I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

  Chad Lindberg

  Thinking, Play, Aliens

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

  Marcel Proust

  Decision, Mind, Lasts

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.556, Jester House Publishing

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• Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Journey, Mind, Arrivals

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”

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• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Men, Weakness

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• An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Evil, World

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.719, Ballantine Books

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Three, Lists

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fate, Thinking, Honey

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• I don’t know. There are times when I get the feeling he can’t tell me from Nynia. I think he loves her more than me. (Sunshine) No offense, but that’s stupid. You and Talon are soulmates. He will always love you no matter who or what you are. You, my friend, could come back as a humpback whale and he would love you. He can’t help it. The two of you are destined for each other. (Psyche)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soulmate, Stupid, Love You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Night Embrace”, p.237, Hachette UK

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

  Edward Carpenter

  Strong, Block, Heart

  Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

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• Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lonely, Distance, Years

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• Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Best Year

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

  J.R. Ward

  Couple, Fate, Trying

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2402, Penguin

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• No wind favors he who has no destined port.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals, They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Two, People, Sitting

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• Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

  Jean Rostand

  Destiny, Men, Equal

  Jean Rostand (1959). “Can Man be Modified?”

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• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Reading, Responsibility

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• In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

  Franz Liszt

  Song, Hungary, Melody

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• The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

  Lev Grossman

  Majority, Forgotten, Ends

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• I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

  Ace Frehley

  New York, Stars, Rocks

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• My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Feelings, Actresses

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• It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Mind, Tails

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

  Russell Crowe

  Defeat

  "Crowe's dual role spells double trouble" by James Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

  Jeb Bush

  Responsibility, Caring, Government

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