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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 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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Philip Pullman
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What I couldnt help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than Id learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. – Philip Pullman

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Morning
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Philip Pullman
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Fate
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Coincidences are little hellos from heaven. – Theresa Caputo, Long Island Medium [S7, E5, 2016]

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Destiny = our free will + God’s free will – Terri Guillemets

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Fate

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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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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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Browns trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. – Benny Green

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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. – Quincy Jones

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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