#fate

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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing. ↗

— Novalis

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

— Novalis

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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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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 Penn

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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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

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