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Fate Quotes
"No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally."
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"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."
Fate,
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"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."
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"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
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"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."
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"Fate is not in man but around him."
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"It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect."
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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Fate,
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"Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."
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"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
Fate,
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"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."
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"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."
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"Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it."
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"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
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"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars."
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"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."
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