"Destiny and history are untidy."
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"I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child."
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"Every man should have the right to choose their destiny."
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
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"We must always take risks. That is our destiny."
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."
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"Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath."
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"Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be."
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"Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives."
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"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."
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"Our destiny is largely in our hands."
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"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."
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"So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system."
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"She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance."
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"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly."
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"All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny."
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"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."
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"Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own."
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"I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny."
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