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"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."
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"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
Life

"Men exist for the sake of one another."
Man

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
Nature

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
Man

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
Integrity

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
Time

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
Life

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
Will

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."
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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."
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"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."
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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."
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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."
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"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?"
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