“I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.” — Jack Vance, Cugel
Tag: destiny
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“Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.” — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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“Destiny, n.: A tyrant’s authority for crime and fool’s excuse for failure.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“There is an affected self-dramatizing in the brooding over one’s prospects and destiny.” — Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook
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“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.” — William Ernest Henley, Invictus
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“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck.” — Joseph Heller, God Knows
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“The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.” — Peter Medawar, The Future of Man
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“It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do with what happens to you.” — Chris Waddell, 2011 Commencement Speech, Middlebury College
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“Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Path of Law” 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897)
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“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn’t exist yet. Fate is for losers.” — Douglas Coupland
“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn’t exist yet. Fate is for losers.” — Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma
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