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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Bring Bringing Changes Fate Life Should Wait Which You Yourself

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Fate is for losers.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Fate Losers

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Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Any Battle Been Before Civil Civil War Comrades Dead Dog Even Fate Had Hear Identifying Inform Loved Loved Ones National Necessarily Processes Up War Were Write You Your

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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

~Duke Ellington

Topics: Being Famous Fate Kind Me Too Want Young

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Better Fate Kisses Than Wisdom

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Agreements Fate Fools Perhaps Sign Temperament

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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Area Epoch Fate Happenings Historical Humanity Life Placed Spiritual Spiritual Life Us Wherein Which Within Work

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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

~Edmund White

Topics: Also Anne Captured Characters Death Deep English Even Evident Falling Fate Imagined May Meditation Novel Original Page Prose Quality Rounded Sound Superb Things Translation Turner Version Well

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My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Ask Courts Decide Fate Hong Kong Intention Kong People

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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

Topics: Actor Am Attain Desired Fate Homelessness Incapacity Most Physical Required Slave Spirit I Am

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