"Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Fate Quotes #Natural Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.”
“I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.”
“Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.”
“I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And it's funny, I've started to notice it, I started to see it after a while, that that's kind of a way of writing that I was doing. But I didn't set about to do that.”
“Councils of War never fight.”
“When the will is given, the battle is ended.”
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

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