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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

Fate is written in the face.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.