"Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men."

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Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.182, Oxford University Press

C. Wright Mills

#Fate Quotes #Men Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Come a day there wonâ€™t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Donâ€™t push me, and I wonâ€™t push you. Dong le ma?”
“My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.”
“Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. â€œYou are too skinny for him,â€ Jhiqui was saying. â€œYou are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.â€ Irri bristled back. â€œIt is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.”
“Look, he isnâ€™t even concerned.â€ I poured the tea. â€œHeâ€™s concerned, Mother. He just doesnâ€™t panic, because heâ€™s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.â€ â€œI can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,â€ Jim offered.”
“One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies”
“A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.”
“I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.”
“It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.”

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