A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
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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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Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Ginny Brown-Waite
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Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
Jenny Zhang
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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
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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington
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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
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I believe in fate, but I also believe that hard work and diligence plays a very important role in our lives.
Chanda Kochhar
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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
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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
Bernie Sanders
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope
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There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful.
Sofia Vassilieva
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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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By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
Tom Shales
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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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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I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.
Thelma Schoonmaker
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I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?
Rosamund Pike
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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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Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.
Martin Rees
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It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
Neal Stephenson
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Lucan
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