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“Geography is destiny.”
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“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009. 
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“I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.”
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“Our future is our sense of common destiny.”
Source : "We in Turkey and the Middle East have replaced humiliation with dignity" by Ahmet Davutoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
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“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.”
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“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
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“Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.”
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“The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.”
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“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”
Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
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“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
