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“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.”

War Moments Certain Fighting Force Results Fate Objects Battle Various Accomplish Critical Combination Flash Reserves Hostile Critical Moments

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.”

Doe Chance Results Successful Fate Fortune Determined Good Fortune Succession Successful Life Successful Day

Author:Ari Kiev

“The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.”

Giving Hands Results Fate Nemesis

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.”

Knows Men Should Earth Results Destiny Fate Masters Sole Mistrust Laborers Thoughtlessness

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.”

Knows Men Way Belief Justice Results Fate Punishment Abandoned Shortcomings

Author:Maimonides

“Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.”

Ifs Men Believe Results Pay Secret Fate He Man Evidence Credit Dues Be Good Advertising Thrive Great Results

Book:Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”

Men Made Given Results Fate Conditions

Book:Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

Source: Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.”

Humans Natural Human Beings Results Environment Fate Society Directors Mechanism Sole Natural Environment Demolition

Author:Karl Polanyi

“Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.”

May Certain Courses Natural Results Fate Events Particular Circumstances Vary

Book:1872-1878

Source: 1872-1878

“No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.”

Needs Children Matter Parent Decision Results Fate Adults Just One Again And Again Configuration

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.”

Moments Choices Results Fate Karma Punishment Agents

Book:Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook

Source: Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook

“Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.”