"It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end."
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"Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble."
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"[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind."
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"Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny."
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"I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny."
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"But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live."
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"Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside"
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"Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say."
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"The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it."
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"We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns."
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"Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals."
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"We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny."
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"Of course, we can not connect imprint future, you can just hook them to look back. So rest assured that the dots, the events in your life in one way or another will affect your future. You have to have faith in something - the courage, destiny, life, destiny or whatever - thinking that has made the difference in my life"
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"With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see."
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"You are the creator of your own destiny"
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"So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men."
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"Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion."
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"I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of."
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"A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance."
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"The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations."
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