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Births

• 1522 - John Jewel
• 1936 - Harold Budd
• 1957 - John G. Rowland
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• 1987 - Hermione Gingold
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• People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you’re fat, that you’re this, that you’re that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

  Ashley Benson

  Topics in Fate

  Tags in Mean, Comfortable

• In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

  Georges Duhamel

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  Tags in Public, Verdict

• Man blindly works the will of fate.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

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  Tags in Blindly, Works

• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

  William Samuel Johnson

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  Tags in Man

• If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

  William McFee

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• If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  William Irwin Thompson

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  Tags in Destiny

• 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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  Tags in Actors, Physical, Incapacity

• I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• 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

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  No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Fate, Future, Past

  Tags in Present

• Whether it’s destiny or fate or whatever, I don’t think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

  Thomas Keller

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  Tags in Laundry, Anywhere, Destiny

• Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Tags in Fulfillment, Destiny

• Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Ambition, Failure, Fate, Success

  Tags in Perseverance, Men, Destiny

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Country, Death, Fate

  Tags in Worthy, Die

• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

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  Tags in Sea, Lose

• In seeking to avoid evil, [humanity] is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is [our] ingenuity, rather than [our] animal nature, that has given [our] fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

  Ernest Becker

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  Tags in Evil, Creativity

• 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

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  Tags in School, Forget, Interest, Concern

• 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

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  Tags in Instead

• All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

  Nellie Bly

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