"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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"The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!"
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"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
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"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."
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"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."
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"My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground."
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"The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits."
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"If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless."
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"'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity ."
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"For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice."
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"Life is a compromise between fate and free will."
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"It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail"
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"I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?"
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"I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours."
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"It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory"
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"We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet."
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"To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate"
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"Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
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