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• God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
• God gives us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
  -- Stephen Covey...
• We made civilisation to impress our girl friends.
• Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. -- Dryde
• We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. -- Karl Poppe
• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God.
  We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself....
• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydide