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  One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

  Joan of Arc

  Faith, Courage, Believe

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• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Christian, Home, Rights

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Change, Philosophy

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drag, Willing, Unwilling

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CVII, 1922.

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• Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Destiny, Way, Wonder

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• A man's character is his fate.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Change, Philosophical

  On the Universe fragment 121

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• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Trying, Aim

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.442, Wordsworth Editions

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• All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

  John Dryden

  Death, Decay, Literature

  'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

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• Fate loves the fearless.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Stay Positive, Fearless

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.684, Delphi Classics

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• It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Gambling, Hands

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• We create our fate everyday

  Henry Miller

  Destiny, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

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• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, God

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• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  e. e. cummings

  Romantic, Valentines Day, Kissing

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Commitment, Acceptance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  Francis Bacon

  Business, Fall, Littles

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.332

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Destiny, Eagles, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Future, Heaven

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Crush, Destiny, Two

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• We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Fortune

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Alroy: A Romance”, p.81

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• They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

  Matthew Arnold

  Chance

  'Resignation' (1849) l. 247

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wisdom, Literature, Ordination

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• We seal our fate with the choices we make.

  Gloria Estefan

  Choices, Seals

  Song: Seal Our Fate, Album: Into the Light, 1991

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