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“Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.”

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Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and satirist known for his wit and satirical style. His works often focused on social and cultural satire, offering profound insights into the customs of his time and the literary world. more

“I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?”

Doe Nations Issues Fate Materials Degrees Resources Size Terror Territory Impressed Grandeur Sublimity

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.”

Knows Writing Book Enough Stories Fate Life Story

Author:Robert Breault

“In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.”

Struggle Fate Guilty Inhumanity Resigning

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.”

Humans Humanity Individual Fate Integrity Finals Examination Personal Integrity

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.”

Men Humans Values Moral Destiny Fate Figures Wave Determine Determined Guidance Agency Tragic Atoms Genes Probability Puppets Suspended Grotesque Glands Human Wisdom Chromosomes

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.”

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.”

Government Fate Bystanders

Author:Mark Steyn

“Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.”

Men Made Wealth Fate Devices Cunning Files Captives Fetters

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.”

Use Dream Political Party Mass Labor Foolish Clock Helpless Political Parties Spinning

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.”

Two Real America Political Party Winner Loser Political Parties

Book:Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

Source: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

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