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Related Topic(s): Chaos; Destiny; Ephemeral; Life; Randomness
Related Topic(s): Destiny; Ordinary; Potential
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Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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Related Topic(s): Destiny; The_21st_century
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We have a rendezvous with Destiny.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he was often referred to by his initials, FDR. Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in 1932, while the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. FDR's combination of optimism and economic activism is often credited with keeping the country's economic crisis from developing into a political crisis. He led the United States through most of World War II, and died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage, shortly before the war ended.
Roosevelt named his approach to the economic situation the New Deal; it consisted of legislation pushed through Congress as well as executive orders. Executive orders included the bank holiday declared when he first came to office; legislation created new government agencies, such as the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Administration, with the intent of creating new jobs for the unemployed. Other legislation provided direct assistance to individuals, such as the Social Security Act.
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Related Topic(s): Acceptance; Destiny; First Nation; Indigenous Cultures; Race Native American- First Nation
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What has passed and cannot be prevented, should not be grieved for.
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Related Topic(s): Destiny; Inevitable; Journey
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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings. The stream knows it can't stay on the mountain.
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Related Topic(s): Accident; Destiny; Fate; Intention
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It would be a curious experiment to shake the same bough again, and see if the ripe fruit were better or worse than the early windfalls.
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Related Topic(s): Fate; Fortune
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We must treat fortune as we do health; enjoy it when it is good and be patient when it is bad.
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Related Topic(s): Deception; Fortune; Luck
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
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Related Topic(s): Crime; Fortune; Wealth
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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Honore De Balzac
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Honore de Balzac; 20 May 1799;- 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Eça de Queirós, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Perez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.
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Related Topic(s): Effort; Fortune; Luck; PERSEVERANCE; Preparation; WORK
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Luck doesn't just happen. You work hard to put yourself in its path.
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Related Topic(s): Luck
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Nature gives merit and fortune sets it to work.
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Related Topic(s): Fate; Luck; Responsibility
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Sallust quoting Appius, Second Epistle to Caesar interpreted by Henry Steuart, L.L.D., 1824 pub date interpreted by Henry Steuart, L.L.D., 1824 pub date
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Corruption; Excuses; Flaws; Integrity; Luck; VIRTUE; Weakness
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Mind is the great presiding principle that regulates human life. If the mind chooses the road of virtue, and aspires to true glory through that path, there will be no complaint of innate imbecility or the dominion of accident. The human character will then shine forth, in all its lustre, superior to fortune, and independent of her gifts. For over integrity, diligence, and other qualities, fortune is possessed of no power: She is unable to bestow...
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Coping; Homeostasis; Luck; STABILITY; STRESS
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My respect for your character is founded on this, that, with whatever moderation you have borne the favors of fortune, it was when she frowned that you always seemed to rise the highest, erect and firm amidst the shocks of adversity."
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Advice; Consultation; Counsel; Luck
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Perhaps of all undertakings, there is no more delicate and difficult, than to address advice to the ear of power; to a sovereign prince, to a celebrated general, or, in a word, to him, who is elevated to authority over his fellow men. This is true, in the first place, because the great never want advisers: And secondly, because to look, with clearness into the future, far exceeds the keenest foresight, and the most consummate wisdom. Besides, we ...
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Attitude; Luck; Skills; WORK
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Adversity= luck + work + attitude + skills
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Related Topic(s): Attitude; Knowledge; Luck; Opportunity; WORK
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Opportunity= work + luck + knowledge + attitude
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