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Life is like a game of cards.The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
— Johnny Rich
There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.
— Lance Conrad
Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.
— Raheel Farooq
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
— Claude Bernard
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?
— Simon Blackburn
Future is predestined and unchangeable.
— Vivake Pathak
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
— George W. Romney
The future is just a projection of the past.
— Vivake Pathak
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
— Max Planck
The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.
— Ilya Prigogine
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[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.
— Stephen King
I've been coerced into free will.
— Brian Spellman
There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
— Johnny Rich
Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism ...
— Eric Chaisson
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
— Charles De Gaulle
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
— Corliss Lamont
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
— Terry Eagleton
You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!
— Sam Harris
Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.
— Marty Rubin
Limits are always extended, never broken.
— Raheel Farooq
We all are characters in a movie.
— Vivake Pathak
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
— Heinz R. Pagels
The way out is the way through.
— L. Ron Hubbard
It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means.
— Noah Wareness
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
— Mark Twain
Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.
— Michael Lewis
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
— Harold Rosenberg
If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
— Zeno Of Citium
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.
— Johnny Rich
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
— Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
— Malcolm Lowry
Determinists can't help it
— Jerry DePyper
No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats donot control temperature. — Robert Nozick
Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything.
— Glen Duncan
You is not you until you see the path of your faith.
— Lena Hussain
You cannot change your future.
— Vivake Pathak
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[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
— Stephen Jay Gould
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
— Bernard DeVoto
Power is something that is out of term.
— Lena Hussain
Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.
— Nenia Campbell
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
— Baruch Spinoza
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
— Friedrich Engels
Life calls the tune, we dance.
— John Galsworthy
Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.
— Raheel Farooq
The future is certain. It is just not known.
— Johnny Rich