"Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong……" — Terry Pratchett
"Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
— Aeschylus
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
— Sitting Bull
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we…
— Dick Cheney
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls…
— William J. Clinton
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty,…
— Alan K. Simpson
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about…
— Wilma Mankiller
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
— John Donne
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