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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. (Quote by - Janez Drnovsek )

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. (Quote by - Eugene Jarvis)

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. (Quote by - Confucius)

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

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. (Quote by - William Floyd)

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

Whatever limits us we call fate. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)

I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that. (Quote by - Caroline Dhavernas)

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

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. (Quote by - Richard Schickel)

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

Fate - everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens look for the good in it as it is there! (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

Every one is the architect of his own fortune. (Quote by - Mathurin Regnier)

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle. (Quote by - Otto Weininger)

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. (Quote by - Otto Bauer)

The compulsion of fate is bitter. (Quote by - Christoph Martin Wieland)

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

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