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Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a_x000D__x000D_hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond_x000D__x000D_himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, _x000D_But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long: _x000D_Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. _x000D_Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years; _x000D_Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; _x000D_Till like a clock worn out with eating time, _x000D_The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high _x000D_between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. _x000D_Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had _x000D_Passed over many a time. _x000D_An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, _x000D_Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished,_x000D_As much as if it had a thousand acres_x000D_Of untrodden space around it, and never _x000D_Knew the danger it incurred. _x000D_It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an _x000D_Evil fate by apprehending it.

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.