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Quote:I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.[Siddhartha Buddha]

Quote:Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. [Franklin D. Roosevelt]

Quote:The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. [Thucydides]

Quote:The fates have given mankind a patient soul. [Homer]

Quote:The fates have given mankind a patient soul. [Homer]



Definitions of: fate

Definition: A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Definition: Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

Definition: The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

Definition: The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

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