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 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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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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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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I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Fate
[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? – Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt

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College

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow

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Perspective

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold

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History

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. – Thomas Friedman

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War