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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Quote by John Adams about invention, imagination, country, man

Fate is like gravity. You can jump up and down until your heart’s content, but the earth still falls into the sun, and the sun still courses through the galaxy, both indifferent to your short-lived and insignificant defiance.

Quote by Mark Amend about destiny, sun, defiance, earth, heart, thinking

Sustaining that there is no destiny is the same with saying that the individual is insignificant and the life of human is a meaningless story. Minima moralia

Quote by Andrei Pleșu about destiny, human imperfections, life