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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899
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