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• Fate keeps on happening.

  Anita Loos

  Destiny, Happenings

  Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp (2003). “Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, p.298, Univ of California Press

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• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Success, Diversity, Brotherhood

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I don't believe in fate.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "Fictional character: Yuri Orlov". "Lord of War", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

  Albert Camus

  Change, Destiny, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Prayer

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• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Destiny, Deeds And Words

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Fall, Destiny

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Bitterness, Constitution

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• Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

  Jean Kwok

  Different, Sometimes

  Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.180, Penguin

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• Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Boxing, Unseen, Gloves

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

  Douglas Coupland

  Inspirational, Strength, Destiny

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Fear, Future

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Battle, Born, Rugged

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  Oscar Wilde

  Curves, Ivory, History

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

  Francois Rabelais

  Waiting, Secret, Mind

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The compulsion of fate is bitter.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Bitterness, Bitter, Compulsion

  "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  Karl Rove

  Regret, Hands, Majority Leader

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• I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Long Ago, Circles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Knowledge, Knowing, Too Much

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Needs, Tongue, Select

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.42, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

  Thomas Gray

  Genius, Commerce, Nations

  "The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings".

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• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Running, House, Trying

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Oct 30, 2011

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• Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

  Cassandra Clare

  Struggle, Swim, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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