"A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . ."
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"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today"
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"The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man."
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"We ought to face our destiny with courage."
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"Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today."
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"No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny."
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"I feel that I am a man of destiny."
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"Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?"
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"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny"
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"Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people."
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"Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life."
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"I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite."
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"Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning."
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"The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity."
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"Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?"
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"Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us."
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"I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."
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"But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart."
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"We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices."
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"In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible."
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