
Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
- Topic: Destiny, Society
- Location: Brookings, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
