Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION:   fate :: destiny

Quoted In The Grove:
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
~E M Forester

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
~Thomas Mann

EndQuote:
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
~Aldous Huxley

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Exercise Prompt for 05/10:   struggle

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You are what your deep driving desire is;
As your deep driving desire is, so is your will;
As your will is so is your deed;
As your deed is so is your destiny.
~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~James Allen

Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently.
~Olivia Green

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
~Frank Outlaw

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
~Ivan Turgenev

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
~Novalis

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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~Ariel Dorfman

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided.
~Hillary Clinton

You can approach ‘The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death’ in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman’s peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
~Robert Gottlieb

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
~Groucho Marx

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On a windswept hill
by a billowing sea,
my destiny sits
and waits for me.
~Robert Brault

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.
~Democritus

Don’t be always quarreling with Fate. We too often heap our faults on Fate’s shoulders.
~Minna Thomas Antrim

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
~Peter Straub

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
~Joseph Heller

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
~William Rounseville Alger

Destiny has two ways of crushing us ‒ by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
~Georg Wilhelm Frieidrich Hegel

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided, a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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Posted From The Grove

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
~Otto Bauer

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
~Ralph Ellison

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
~Max Weber

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
~Salman Rushdie

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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
~Hans Jonas

I have no opinion of my own wisdom, and little of any body’s else; but I have an odd system, that what is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for you must know, madam, that I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.
~Horace Walpole

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It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person’s life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
~Regina Brett

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
~Norm Crosby

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Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.
~Joseph Stiglitz

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
~Ron Fournier

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
~Aeschylus

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
~John Adams

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
~Ariel Sharon

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
~Theodor Herzl

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
~Honore de Balzac

I know that I shall meet my fate
somewhere among the clouds above;
those that I fight I do not hate,
those that I guard I do not love.
~W B Yeats

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This principle is old, but true as fate,
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
~Thomas Dekker

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In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.
~Ed Davey

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
~Douglas Alexander

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
~Leonid I Brezhnev

Germany’s fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
~Horst Koehler

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
~Lech Walesa

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of ‘others’ and ‘our’ problems are being increasingly erased.
~Janez Drnovsek

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. ~Natalia Ginzburg

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
~Pierre Corneille

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
~Giuseppe Garibaldi

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death ‒ that is heroism.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
~William Floyd

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The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
~Ellen Key

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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.
~Benito Mussolini

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
~Christian Lous Lange

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
~Carl Levin

…is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the ‘freedom-loving peoples’ he’s seeking to protect. I’d love to meet a freedom-hating people.
~Harold Pinter

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
~Camille Paglia

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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
~Nguyen Cao Ky

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
~Donald Trump

What separates the winners from the whiners is how a person reacts to
each new twist of fate.
~author unknown

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.
~Yahya Jammeh

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
~Pierre Corneille

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
~Bertrand Russell

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The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
~Bushwick Bill

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
~Douglas Coupland

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
~John Dalberg-Acton

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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
~Joseph Conrad

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The fate of our democracy rests on our ability to protect voting rights for all citizens.
~Alex Padilla

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
~John Philpot Curran

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~William Irwin Thompson

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
~Dante Alighieri

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
~William Ernest Henley

Fate loves the fearless.
~James Russell Lowell

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~Alex Pearl: Destiny (2:14) a bit of weirdness, make of it what you will

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~NY Times: We Have A Creativity Problem

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~The Atlantic: The Nocturnals ● extreme introverts?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/02/ultra-introverts-nocturnal-lives/622856/?utm_source

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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
~Thomas Gray

Let us, then, be up and doing,
with a heart for any fate;
still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labor and to wait.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe in fate, but I also believe that hard work and diligence plays a very important role in our lives.
~Chanda Kochhar

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
~Guy Kawasaki

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~Kin Hubbard

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
~Rebecca Solnit

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’
~Robert Greenwald

But I have learned a thing or two;
I know as sure as fate,
when we lock up our lives for wealth,
the gold key comes too late.
~Will Carleton

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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
~Sam Walton

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
~John C Maxwell

You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future.
~James A Murphy

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
~Fergus Henderson

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Destiny is better planned than stumbled upon.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

Destiny is often by design.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done ‒ then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
~Citium Zeno

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
~Chrysippus

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I’ve had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don’t believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.
~Kerry James Marshall

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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
~Albert Einstein

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
~Anais Nin

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But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
~Kimbal Musk

We continue our learning, by applying the answers and knowledge we have gained to a future challenge which reinforces that knowledge and secures it for our lifetime.
~G Donald Craig Jr

But blind to former as to future fate,
what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
~Alexander Pope

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
~Bertrand Russell

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
~Randall Kennedy

White Americans live under this accusation that they’re racist, they need to prove that they’re not racist. In order to prove that you’re not racist, you need to take over the fate of black people and say, go with us, we’ll engineer you into the future, we’ll engineer you into equality.
~Shelby Steele

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate ‒ that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
~Condoleezza Rice

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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
~Thomas Sowell

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.
~Shelby Steele

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
~Horst Koehler

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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view.
~Steven Spielberg

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.
~Robin Wright

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
~Helen Hayes

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can’t plan as an actor; there’s no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people’s choices and decisions that you’re at the whim of fate, really.
~Ruth Negga

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
~J K Rowling

I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it’s up to the audience to decide my fate.
~Ravi Teja

Homelessness is the actor’s fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
~Edwin Booth

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Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
~John Frusciante

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
~Knut Hamsun

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
~Richard Bach

Learn about life and when fate takes you by the hand, go. Do it. Dare to do.
~Lorne Greene

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~David Tames: Destiny (1999) (4:20) fate that wasn’t destiny

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~Michael Conroy: Drexler’s Destiny (8:03) leaving for good

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~Ringling College of Art and Design: Mothboy (2:11) pubescent fate, animated

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~Amir Mehran: Silent City (6:57) haunting for its timing, animated

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Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
~Martin Goldsmith

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
~Duke Ellington

People don’t want to praise their contemporaries whose lives they actually share, but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations.
~Ryan Holiday

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
~Charles Baudelaire

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
~Andre Malraux

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
~Margaret Oliphant

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All things are subject to decay
and when fate summons,
monarchs must obey.
~John Dryden

Let men and fate do their worst, we must learn to suffer in silence, everything will find its proper place in the end and sooner or later my turn will come.
~Rousseau

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
~Bear Grylls

God gives you the option to choose. Based on your choice the path is laid out. The ultimate destination remains fixed.
~Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
~Confucius

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
~Daniel Defoe

Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
~Ingrid Bergman

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
~Kazuo Ishiguro

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I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
~Tom Baker

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life sentence which Fate carries in her hand.
~T E Lawrence

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~Joan of Arc

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§ MUSIC:

I was 9 when I wrote ‘Fate Stay with Me.’ It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
~Alanis Morissette

Musical compositions can be very sad – Chopin – but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
~Umberto Eco

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King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I’m not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate ‒ I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.
~King Diamond

I believe samurai in the Edo period and modern hip-hop artists have something in common. Rappers open the way to their future with one microphone; samurai decided their fate with one sword.
~Shinichiro Watanabe

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~Bob Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate // Paris, Texas • ft. Jeff Tweedy (3:51) a classic gets lived in

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~Destiny’s Child: Survivor (3:28) a promise to self

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~Destiny: Promise Issues (3:31) second chance?

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~Boy Harsher: Fate (4:17) not only war is bloodthirsty

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~The Byrds: I Wasn’t Born To Follow (2:04) easy for the road

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Que Sera Sera: different approaches to What Will Be…

~Doris Day (7:15) the classic, with accompanying storyline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

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~Pink Martini (4:51) a song from the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccvzBgkdA8

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~Marcus Miller, ft. Selah Sue (6:01) lots of smiling faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMuparhtks

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~thailifechannel (2:02) heart tugging/expanding, watch expressions change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy4r_peOetw

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It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
~Robert Brault

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
~Sarah Jessica Parker

The light goes out on purpose sometimes so we can get lost and then realize we weren’t even on the right path to begin with.
~Michelle Christine

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.
~Robert Brault

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.
~Robert Brault

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And yet ‒ and yet ‒ ah, who understands?
We men and women are complex things!
A hundred tunes Fate’s inexorable hands
May play on the sensitive soul-strings.
~Amy Levy

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
~Jim Sturgess

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Stardust sails endless distances through silent ages until, white-hot, it strikes a ready heart.
~Terri Guillemets

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

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It lies not in our power to love, or hate,
For will in us is over-rul’d by fate.
~Christopher Marlowe

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
~Amelia Barr

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone ‒ we find it with another.
~Thomas Merton

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
~John Heywood

Love cannot save you from your own fate.
~Jim Morrison

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
~Emma Watson

Well, marriage doesn’t function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it’s in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage ‒ and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York ‒ it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
~Jeffrey Eugenides

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
~Islom Karimov

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.
~Max Frisch

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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
~Shinichi Suzuki

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
~David Herbert Lawrence

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I’m quite sure I will share the same fate.
~Franz Wright

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
~Jacques Delille

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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there’s a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
~Alice Hoffman

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~Emile Zola

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them ‒ these nature spirits who call us here ‒ sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
~Alex Grey

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
~Camille Paglia

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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
~R Buckminster Fuller

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
~Buddha

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
~Don Marquis

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
~Lisa Kleypas

That’s life ‒ whichever way you turn, fate sticks out its foot to trip you.
~Martin Goldsmith & Martin Mooney

Last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to go one-quarter mile and make a legal U-Turn.
~Robert Brault

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.
~Lemony Snicket

I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare ‒ or, if not, some equally brainy bird ‒ who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
~P G Wodehouse

Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing glove.
~P G Wodehouse

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
~Terry Pratchett

I believe in fate. I didn’t set out to be a comedian at first. I’m still not sure if I am or not.
~Noel Fielding

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
~Voltaire

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
~S J Perelman

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
~William Shatner

Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
~Les Brown

It’s the niceties that make the difference. Fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Seek not to know what must not be revealed,
for joy only flows where fate is most concealed.
A busy person would find their sorrows much more;
if future fortunes were known before!
~John Dryden

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~Thomas Huxley

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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.
~Sun Tzu

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Those who are infatuated with their own beauty are infatuated with something that has no future, and will reap a bitter reward.
~Jason Edward Shiffman

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I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
~Oscar Wilde

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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.
~John Desmond Bernal

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
~E M Forster

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If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you.
~Kim Russo

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Politics, the pursuit of unity that succeeds when it divides.
~author unknown

Given that regional security is the legitimate concern of a world power, and considering the success with our Monroe Doctrine for the Americas, it is understandable that a threatened leader (however misguided) would move to protect his country’s interest. There are limits, however…

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Random Thoughts By Length

Fate will find a way.
~Virgil

I do believe in fate.
~Alex Ferguson

Fate keeps on happening.
~Anita Loos

I don’t believe in fate.
~John Wooden

Fate is written in the face.
~Federico Fellini

Fate laughs at probabilities.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is no armor against fate.
~James Shirley

To bear is to conquer our fate.
~Thomas Campbell

Whatever limits us we call fate.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compulsion of fate is bitter.
~Christoph Martin Wieland

Fate’s a fiddler, Life’s a dance.
~William Ernest Henley

Man blindly works the will of fate.
~Christoph Martin Wieland

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
~e e cummings

Fate pulls you in different directions.
~Clint Eastwood

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
~Euripides

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~John Dryden

What’s meant to be will always find a way.
~Trisha Yearwood

No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
~Matthew Arnold

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Fortune comes to a man; he cannot go to it.
~James Lendall Basford

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
~Jack Welch

You have all the influence you choose to have.
~Philip Seymour Hoffman

Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate…
~Edgar Fawcett

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
~Isabel Allende

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
~Bob Marley

Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny.
~Steve Maraboli

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
~Charles Revson

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
~Albert Camus

Be like spider, he is the weaver of his own destiny.
~Shubham Srivastava

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
~Seneca The Younger

It’s choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch

We determine our destiny by the actions we take today.
~Catherine Pulsifer

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
~Otto Weininger

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
~Alexander the Great

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
~Imre Kertesz

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~William Shakespeare

Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface.
~Bhartrhari

What happened happened. What’s gonna happen, is gonna happen.
~Michael Pena

I’m a big believer in fate, and it’s working out well so far.
~Jodie Comer

Learn from the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future.
~James A Murphy

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
~Mary Renault

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
~Plato

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
~William James

Wisdom opens the door to avoiding similar problems in the future.
~G Donald Craig Jr

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
~Henry David Thoreau

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.
~Henry Samueli

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
~C S Lewis

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
~Wilhelm von Humboldt

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
~Anthony Scaramucci

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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@Writers Platform

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
~Franz Kafka

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of ‘border,’ and that is what I have experienced.
~S Ansky

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~Ivan Turgenev

A language will survive the stains placed on it by liars and those who war under its banner, because the need for our discourse moving forward will outlive them.
~author unknown

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
~Wade Davis

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it’s by way of heartbreak, sometimes it’s by way of injustice, sometimes it’s by way of fate. There’s an infinite number of ways to examine it.
~Tom Hanks

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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you’re honest and you’re robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to… well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
~Carl Hiaasen

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
~Richard Schickel

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
~Kazuo Ishiguro

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
~O Henry

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
~Garrett Hedlund

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It’s hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
~Ann Brashares

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
~Robert Browning

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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
~Isabel Allende

Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.
~Brad Hall

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
~Derek Walcott

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Prewritten Prompt: fate

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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
~William Samuel Johnson

I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.
~Rob Zombie

Someone said that Providence was the baptismal name of Chance, some devout soul may say that Chance is a nickname for Providence.
~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

…Chance (which is a literary synonym of Providence)…
~Thomas Clark Henley

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
~Alexander Pope

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
~Kyle MacLachlan

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
~Chris Pine

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
~Walter Kaufmann

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
~Stefan Zweig

We’re on some path that’s set since we’re born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don’t believe in my fate.
~RM

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You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down.
~Glee

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent …
‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~John Webster

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Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
~Euripedes

Destiny = our free will + God’s free will
~Terri Guillemets

Coincidences are little hellos from heaven.
~Theresa Caputo

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
~Charlotte Clemensen Taylor

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God, when he does not want to sign.
~Théophile Gautier

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But I was always coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

The place you are right now
God circled on a map for you.
~Hāfez

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Destiny is not the same as fate. The word refers not to anything terrible or even to anything inevitable, in the usual sense of the word, but to the temporal and free unfolding of a person’s essential being. A destiny is a spiritual drama.
~Gregory Wolfe

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
~Paulo Coehlo

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If there’s anything Muslims can do during this global pandemic [during Ramadan], it is to have our compassion shine.
~Rashida Tlaib

We start the fast in the morning strong. By noon we start to get weaker. By the afternoon, we really begin to feel the fast. By sunset, right before we break it, things get difficult. Our lives mirror this. We start our lives strong as youth until we reach noon time, our 30’s and 40’s, we start to get weak. Once we reach old age ‒ our physical abilities are greatly reduced until we leave this life. Fasting shouts to us our own mortality.
~Imam Suhaib Webb

God permeates these things ‒ as the saying goes, Allah is beautiful, and He loves beauty ‒ but they are transient. Forced to concentrate on the eternal, you begin to see, or think you see, the bones and sinews of the world beneath its seasonal flesh.
~G Willow Wilson

The older I get, the more grateful I am for those reminders to stop, be still, reflect, and be grateful. I find those moments can be really restorative like returning to a power station.
~Tahereh Mafi

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I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it’s all going to be disastrous. That it hasn’t all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
~Antony Sher

I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter ‒ it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
~Henry Rollins

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
~Ugo Betti

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
~Andrea Bocelli

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
~Abraham Clark

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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
~Daniel Radcliffe

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Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.
~T B Joshua

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
~Olivia Green

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~Albert Schweitzer

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§ THE EXERCISE

full moon

thin clouds
veiled night
a ghost looms
round, behind
bare tree branches
holds the shroud
of fate in place

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pretty lady

trade hope for fire, absent family
drill in on life, hands get dirty
pretty lady, hidden beauty
new life new fire, grit turned silky
dangerous mystery, memory’s armory

but eyes like embers smoking yet
betray a fate, herself well-met
blistered kiln-hot heart at war
against fire-hardened armor swore
rue the past raw life begets

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the roster

nothing but work left, last of the breed
no emotional ties, straps for holding to life
death a friendly neighbor promising to visit
the happiest and saddest fate attending old age
sign me up

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dna #26

fate in the form of family
happens indiscriminately
indelibly, permanently
the ones we long to see
and the enemy

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bandit king

declining population
needing transfusion
alley-long
throne-wide table
boosted ego
bolstered image
perks of power
stale road to fate
out of touch
where reality lives

blighted ambitions
native paranoias
botched operations
blotched record
personal shoving
general jostling
personell shelving
pols infighting
willing to be second
to abandon ship

the bandit king
proud target of plots
centered head of table
while icy reason
waits in the wings
to light the fire
war’s potential warning scorch
or co-existential warming torch
somewhere an exit
camouflaged as success

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consolation

turn from books to war
trade out art for love
or confound fate
switch and graduate

concept studies
mix them match them
re-verb the nouns
before you scratch one

should war survive
outlive love and art
then books remain
remind we once had heart

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5s ‘n 7s

not arranged by fate
not love’s forever soulmate
fresh jazz of a date
yet crave a gentle distance
warmth of presence sharing space

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hunger of anger
fate like a sky hawk hunting
scoped his foe below
dove and died from far above
smashed smithereens of mirror

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weighted with hatred
fated, crated and freighted
next stop, Pearly Gates

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Jonah’s big fish fate
Dubbed: Apostate On The Run
Whale’s tale? Fish My Dish

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fate the imposter
chance posed the other extreme
choice of sauce or blend

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
~Carl Jung

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
~Karl Popper

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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
~Benoit Mandelbrot

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
~Steve Jobs

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
~Douglas Adams

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
~Lawrence Block

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A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
~Nostradamus

By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland ‒ arriving back in Paris on 5 December ‒ it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
~Saul David

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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

We seal our fate with the choices we make.
~Gloria Estefan

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
~Anatole France

I wouldn’t change anything. I think that it’s important to let things happen, and stay ‘happened’. I think that’s all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I’m just glad that it happened.
~Mike Peters

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Personally, I would say the ‘master’ of this whole thing is fate… Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it’s up to them to avoid being used.
~Cliff Burton

Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.
~David Silva

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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you’ll survive
~Cassandra Clare

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
~Charlotte Bronte

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My whole life has been decided by fate. I’ve never planned anything that’s happened to me.
~Sharon Tate

I’ve always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I’ve just been dragged along by fate.
~Greg Giraldo

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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
~Goldie Hawn

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.
~Sarah Jessica Parker

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He is God-like who pulls hard against the swift stream of Fate, though he may go over the terrible Niagara of circumstances.
~James Lendall Basford

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
~William McFee

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If you master your destiny, you will find out there is a destiny tax.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
~Friedrich Schiller

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
~Diana Trilling

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At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, ‘What will happen?’
~June Brown

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
~Arne Glimcher

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Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise,
Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise;
Pass, therefore, not today in vain,
For it will never come again.
~Omar Khayyam

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
~Winston Churchill

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.
~Virgil

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