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Al Gore Politician
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"Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?"

Real Challenges Fate
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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
Fate

"It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny ."

Fate Destiny Happened
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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
Fate

"The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire."

Desire Fate Sick
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Chris Murray Musician
Fate

"Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path."

Fate Destiny Riches
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Clive James Writer
Fate

"I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was."

Fate Cosmos Egomaniacs
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Fate

"A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone."

Heart Fate Destiny
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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate."

Done Hard Work Fate
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Fate

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

Life Is Fate Hours
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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
Fate

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking."

Motivational Fate Destiny
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Brian Williams Journalist
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"As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision."

America Decision Fate
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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
Fate

"Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils."

Hands Dark Fate
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Fate

"The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life."

Pain Nature Fate
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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Fate

"The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors."

Ideas Mind Fate
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
Fate

"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him."

Men Fate Destiny
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Fate

"They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect."

Men Fate Pursuit Of Happiness
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