"Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
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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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"O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times."
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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"
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"Fate is unpenetrated causes."
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
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"Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph."
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"Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering."
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"I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street."
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"The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate."
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"We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it."
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"People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not."
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"[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty."
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"if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate."
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"I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them."
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"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."
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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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"To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power."
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"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then."
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"The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate."
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