"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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"The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one."
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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."
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"Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber."
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"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
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"They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear."
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"The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration."
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"Things have a way of turning out so badly."
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"Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate."
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"Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick."
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"I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal."
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"Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else."
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"What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny."
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"Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!"
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"Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you."
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"Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?"
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"You and I have a rendevous with destiny."
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"I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count."
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"Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God."
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"I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all."
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