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Letter "F" » Fates
«One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve»
Author: Nicholas Rescher
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Reality
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adolescent, adolescents, delusion, Fates, labors, properly, realities, the Fates
«Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Marriage,
Soul
| Keywords:
destinies, everyday, everyday life, families, Fates, mysteries, timeless, weaving
«I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Actions, beings, believe, believe in, concerns, exists, Fates, harmony, human, human action, human beings, In a, orderly, reveals, Spinoza, the Fates
«On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Death of, double, Fates, fulfill, henceforth, the Fates, The Task
«The fates lead him who will - him who won't they drag.»
«We fight in honorable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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Armageddon, fashion, Fates, fearless, honorable, undimmed, unflinching, unheeding
«Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.»
«We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Fates, leaves, scar, smallest, spinning, spins, spin out, spun, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, undid, undoes, undone, vice
«Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Brutus, dear, Fates, fault, Masters
«The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
Actions, calculations, conscience, Fates, guide, honor, hopes, however, imprudent, march, march on, memory, mocked, ranked, ranking, ranks, rectitude, shield, shielded, shielding, sincerity, the Fates, upsets, upsetting
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