"It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words."
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"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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"In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate."
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"10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?"
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"What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us."
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"Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us."
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"Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil."
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"Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine."
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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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"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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"O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair."
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"Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate."
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"London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state."
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"It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable"
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"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free."
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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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"Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order."
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"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."
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"It is God's giving if we laugh or weep."
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