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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.

Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Fate pulls you in different directions

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Fate carries its own clock.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.