"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."

Fate, Fortune, Cruelty, Life

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"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."

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"I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

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"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."

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"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

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"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."

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"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."

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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."

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"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

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"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."

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"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."

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"...Jesus was only twelve years old. Jesus was learning the carpentry trade from his father.Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. It was a cross to be used in the execution of a rabble-rouser.Jesus and his father built it. They were glad to have the work. And the rabble-rouser was executed on it.So it goes."

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