Quote by Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not,

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! – Philip Pullman

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Education
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I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. – Philip Pullman

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Fate
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A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Fate

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Fate

Fate loves the fearless. – James Russell Lowell

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Fate
[W]hat is called chance is the instrument of Providence… – Horace Walpole, 1777 letter to Countess of Ossory

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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. – Author Unknown

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Admin Asst Day

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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Ideology

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

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Beauty

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. – William Dampier

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Morning