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There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking be

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. – Diana Trilling

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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse

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You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down. – Glee, “Furt” (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010), written

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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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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine

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