"Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards."
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"Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate."
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"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
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"The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate."
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"Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes."
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"What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks."
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"Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it."
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"Love the people with whom fate brings you together"
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"The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!"
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
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"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
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"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."
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"The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold."
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"Even the wicked get worse than they deserve."
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"Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!"
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"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
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"Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in."
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"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)"
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"Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain."
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"To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
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