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• I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Change, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Powerful, Self, Your Destiny

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• You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Civilization, Reason

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.564, Best Books on

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• There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feelings, Far Away, Shallow

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.23, Random House

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• Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Tragedy, Different, Comedy

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 19, 1953.

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• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  Euripides

  Men, Tears, Pity

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Arbitrary, Alive, Outcomes

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• What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

  Albert Camus

  People, Finals, Fiction

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• Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

  Sophocles

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Profound

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• This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Simple, Hands

  "Why I Retired to the Desert". The New York Times Magazine, p. 47, March 28, 1954.

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• It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

  Charles Kettering

  Men, New Life, Earth

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Home, Men, Race

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• Character is our destiny.

  Heraclitus

  Character, Our Destiny

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• We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Integrity, Latin, Mean

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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