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#fates

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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


#before #disaster #everybody #fates #intimately

A lion may die of an ass's kick.


Robert Browning


#fates #life #power #weakness #courage

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.


Galen Rowell


#care #fates #i #i care #images

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.


J. K. Rowling


#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can’t even imagine.


Larissa Ione


#imagination

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.


Selena Kitt


#destiny #disillusionment #doom #doomed #eden

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.


Alfred Adler


#complete #cosmos #directs #elevates #eternally

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.


Virgil


#follow #lead #let us #us #wherever

Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex tapestry…each one resonated under the step of the dancing mad god, vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery, or hunger, or architecture, or argument, or cabbage or murder or concrete across the aether. The weft of starlings’ motivations connected to the thick, sticky strand of a young thief’s laugh. The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof. The plait disappeared into the enormity of possible spaces. Every intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept... ..I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.


China Miéville


#life-s-tapestry #spider #tapestry #the-fates #the-weaver

But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues I was struggling with: the Bronx's own Colin Powell. His book, My American Journey, helped me harmonize my understanding of America's history and my aspiration to serve her in uniform. In his autobiography he talked about going to the Woolworth's in Columbus, Georgia, and being able to shop but not eat there. He talked about how black GIs during World War II had more freedoms when stationed in Germany than back in the country they fought for. But he embraced the progress this nation made and the military's role in helping that change to come about. Colin Powell could have been justifiably angry, but he wasn't. He was thankful. I read and reread one section in particular: The Army was living the democratic ideal ahead of the rest of America. Beginning in the fifties, less discrimination, a truer merit system, and leveler playing fields existed inside the gates of our military posts more than in any Southern city hall or Northern corporation. The Army, therefore, made it easier for me to love my country, with all its flaws, and to serve her with all of my heart." -The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (p. 131)


Wes Moore


#two-fates #change






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