"These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end."
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"The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."
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"May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?"
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"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."
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"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
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"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."
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"As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny."
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"The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life."
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"England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea."
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"There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate"
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"It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate."
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"Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up."
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"This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate."
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"What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity."
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"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
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"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite."
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"There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it."
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"The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices."
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"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
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"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."
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