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Definition of Fate
Fate

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

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Fate Quotations

Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Fate Translations

fate in Afrikaans is lot
fate in Danish is bestemmelse
fate in Dutch is lotsbestemming, bestemming, lot
fate in Finnish is osa
fate in Italian is destino
fate in Latin is fatum, fortuna
fate in Norwegian is skjebne
fate in Spanish is destino


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