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Destiny Quotes
"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders."
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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
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"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny."
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"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
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"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
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"When you look up and don't see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them."
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"We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last."
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
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"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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"The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?"
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"But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
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"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."
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"Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable."
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"A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance."
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"Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else."
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"We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves."
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"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
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"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."
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"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
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"If you are born to lead, be a leader!"
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"Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go... they're still here. They never really went anywhere."
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"What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flowof time completely."
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"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
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"He created you with your special features because he was aware of your destination."
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