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• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.
  In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star....
• Make the most of an uncertain future.
• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
  Jose Ortega y Gasse...
• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread
  Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. -- Cowpe...