"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
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Source: Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”
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