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• 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 make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.
• We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. -- Karl Poppe
• Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. -- Dryde
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
  -- Stephen Covey...
• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydide