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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future."

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Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Philosopher
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"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

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