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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Pain, Fate, Men

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier

Humor, Fate, Effort

Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Agnes Repplier

Wise, Fate, Brave

Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Agnes de Mille

Fate, Thinking, People

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Aeschylus

Fate, Ancient

Persae, l.102 (translated by H Weir Smyth).

If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

Adrian Pasdar

Fate, Glasses, People

Source: collider.com

If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

Adolf Hitler

War, Fate, Russia

"Enter the Bunker". "The History Place: Defeat of Hitler", www.historyplace.com. 2010.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Fate, Soul, Way

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Abraham Lincoln

Fate, Clients, Jury

Abraham Lincoln, Daniel W. Stowell (2008). “The papers of Abraham Lincoln: legal documents and cases”

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Heart, School, Fate