“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.”
Chance (1913), part I, Ch. 6
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“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 6, “The House on the River” (p. 112)
“Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.”
Source: Resignation (1849), l. 248-249
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Upon hearing of the death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial of the House of Bonaparte in Africa (1879); cited in James Anthony Froude, Lord Beaconsfield (1890), p. 213.
“We are a people born of many peoples.”
Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and daughters—from all the earth. Sam Gompers from England, Andrew Carnegie from Scotland, Albert Einstein from Germany—and Booker T. Washington and Al Smith—Marconi and Caruso—men of all nations and races and estates—they have made us what we are.
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”
A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Chapter 6 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch06.htm, originally published in Speech at the Supreme State Conference (September 8, 1958).
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)