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“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”

Firsts Looks Has Beens War Fighting Victory Battle Army Defeat Destined Art Of War Strategist War Strategy Stratagem War Victory

Book:The Complete Art of War

Source: The Complete Art of War

“Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.”

“Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.”

Class Masters Ships Disciple Destined Unfaithful

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.”

Ifs Feels Long Hours My Own Love Is Fire Mines Flower Arms Leaving Forgotten Lips Beloved Each Day Climbs Sweetness Destined Famous Love

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“The journey to financial freedom starts the MINUTE you decide you were destined for prosperity, not scarcity- for abundance, not lack. Isn't there a part of you that has always known that? Can you see yourself living a bounteous life- a life of more than enough? It only takes one minute to decide. Decide now.”

Enough Known Journey Minutes Financial Prosperity Abundance Destined Scarcity One Minute Financial Freedom

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.”

Facts Science Certain Destiny Conditions Observation Comparison Hypothesis Destined

Book:A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

“[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.”

Feels Long Moments Fall Air Position Painting Paint Destined Arbitrary

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.”

Country Speak Difficult Liberty Teach Wonderful Sacrifice Demand Taxes Ordinary Tables Folks Libertarian Hungry Contentment Libertarianism Abyss Destined Ruling Wonderful Times

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.”

World Kind Sometimes Science Joy Found Felt Enjoy Subjects Discovery Independence Instruments Progressive Favourite Destined Calamity Vaccines Meadows Peace And Happiness Reverie Smallpox

Author:Edward Jenner

“The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.”

“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.”

Years May Said Book Seems Science Forever Study Land Thousand Approach Ancient Fascinating Thousand Years Egypt Diminish Destined Everlasting Novelty Descendants Old Books Old Places

Author:Amelia B. Edwards

“But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in vain, has destined those parts to various uses, so that the various faculties of the mind seem to require different portions of the cerebrum and cerebellum for their production.”

Mind Wells Different Use Seems Science Nature Brain Productions Various Vain Faculty Portions Destined

Author:Georg Prochaska

“All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”

World Long War Earth Faces Next Results Steps Class Communication Storm Revolutionary War Of The Worlds Destined Nationality Steps Forward Reactionaries Disappearance Dynasty

Author:Friedrich Engels

“Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.”

“Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.”

Persons Self Running Discovery Self Discovery Runners Destined Inspirational Running Motivational Running Running Marathon Marathon Runners Great Running Cross Country Running Marathon Running

Book:Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now.”

Stories Spiritual Spirit Strong Daughter Queens Princess Almighty Royal Destined Once Upon A Time Wondrous Almighty God Good Courage

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems”

Heart Problem Light Used Jesus Sin Solutions Blessed Sacred Dare Devotion Sacraments Destined Vow Eucharist Blessed Sacrament Sacred Heart

Author:Pope John XXIII

“Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.”

Heart Wisdom Light Secret Divine Mirrors Dear Dust Islamic Destined Veils Wipe Dean Polished Dear Friend Islamic Wisdom

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.”

Death Dying Destined Parts Of Life Sweetheart Bubba Forrest Gump

Author:Sally Field

“I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Kind War Games Sports Couple Periods Summer Athlete Clubs Tennis Revelations Realising Destined Inspirational Sports Memorial Realised Playgrounds

Author:Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“It appears I am destined for something; I will live.”

Destiny Destined

Author:Robert Clive

“I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities.”

Inspirational Giving Believe Facts Opportunity I Believe Business Shots I Believe In Driven Destined Belive Holding Back Best Shot Giving Everything

Author:Shailender Singh

“On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all this stuff. It was over 20 pages long and said we're destined to be together. That was totally bizarre. I don't really believe in that stuff anyway, although I do believe in Karma because it's already bitten me on the ass so many times.”

Believe Long Said Together Reading Stuff Fame Pages Karma Ass Occasions Bizarre Destined Zodiac Horoscopes Charting

Author:Robert Pattinson

“You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.”

Ifs Needs Mind Long Reality Passion Interest Ability Focus Periods Happenings Intelligent Casts Passionate Improvement Destined

Author:Charlie Munger

“In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.”

Language Written Photography Accounts Photograph Complexity Contrast Vocabulary Destined Readership

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.”

Doe Ends Philosophy Political Order Products Taxes Economics Producers Saving Consumers Destructive Productive Portions Consumption Destined Savings

Author:Gustave de Molinari

“The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.”

Source: An Invitation to Joy

“Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.”

“This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?"”

World Way Want Years Jobs Opportunity Water Differences Vision Apples Changing The World Destined

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.”

Men May Doe Has Beens Lasts Grows Space Walks Sea Sky Adventure Mountain Findings Lonely Flight Ice Crafts Sand Climbs Aviation Void Destined Great Adventure Lonely Places

Author:Frederick Forsyth

“I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.”

Messages Consequence Missions Missionary Motto Destined

Author:Nicolaus Zinzendorf

“What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.”

World Humans Soul Joy Realizing Human Beings One Day Messages Highest Perfection Fulfilled Destined Birthright Joy God

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.”

Soul Ends States Perfect Perfection Destined

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.”

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.”

Ifs Principles Destined

Author:Marlo Morgan

“The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.”

Believe Happens Destined

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Our children don't have to have drinking problems. They don't have to go through divorce or live defeated lives. You can be the one to stir them up, shake them up, and tell them there is a champion inside of them just waiting to come out. Tell them God has a plan for their lives, and they are destined to do greater things than we ever thought of doing.... You can decide to be the role model and reverse your whole generational pattern from a bad one to a good one.”

“I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.”

Thinking Way Certain Destined

Author:Noah Wyle

“He who forgets will be destined to remember.”

Remember Forget Destined Adages

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.”

Thinking Art Ends Aspect Destined

Author:Ken Baumann

“Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.”

Ifs States Struggle Eternal Independent Raises Flags Palestinian Sovereign Palestine Destined Jerusalem Cubs

Author:Yasser Arafat

“Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.”

“I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.”

Believe Feelings I Believe Justice Animal Moral Wise Seeing Constitution Instinct Creator Hearing Destined Innate

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.”

Thinking Men Want Stupid Males Pigs Destined Hateful Women Want Male Chauvinist

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“A man destined to hang can never drown”

Author:Regina Spektor

“The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.”

People Ifs Way Giving Believe Two Ends Light Forever Fate Authority Green Crowds Significance Approval Godly Destined If You Believe Green Lights

Author:Deb Caletti

“And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.”

World Light Existence Moral Resistance Destined Epoch Humiliate

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned, we soar. We are taken to heights unseen, where it delights, invigorates, and beautifies. When love is spurned, we feel crippled, disconsolate, and bereaved. Polish the coin and you will see only requited love on both sides. I was destined to love you and I will belong to you forever.”

Feels Two Sides Perfect Love Is Forever Taken Love You True Love Delight Height Unseen Soar Both Sides Coins Destined Polish Crippled

Author:Colleen Houck

“Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.”