"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."

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"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."

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"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."

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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?"

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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