"Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny."
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"...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age."
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"I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end."
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"The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero."
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"The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."
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"We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward."
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"When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media."
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"The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya. The Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back and terror was used as a political weapon. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more."
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"The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough."
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"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."
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"Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible."
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"Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways."
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"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny."
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"Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us."
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"You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back."
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"Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart."
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"The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."
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"Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort."
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"The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief."
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"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
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