Thursday, October 11, 2007

Fate

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, "Letter to Albert G. Hodges" (April 4, 1864), p. 281.

How true? We fool ourselves into thinking that we can control events, when at best we can influence them on the side.

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