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destiny

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"He is holding his destiny in his own hands. He knows what he has do if he doesn't want to be the prime minister who resigns every week."

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The American people now have to choose if they will be bystanders or agents in their own destiny.

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Refreshingly honest from a leader who isn't fully in control of her own destiny?

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A percentage of babies born every day will manifest queer characteristics, and though countless strongmen have left fields of carnage in attempts to manage so-called bloodlines, nobody can override such DNA destiny.

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"If I'd gone with them, my entire life would have changed. It might be my fate, or destiny," she says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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