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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....
• Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.
• By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. -- Voltaire
• 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 mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Declaration of Independence...
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. -- Dryde