We asked destiny consultant Master Raymond Lo, an expert in reading the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes, " which of the top sports people bound for Beijing would be successful at the Olympics.
When we choose to shape our destiny, we access a flow of providence that is generally not available to people who wait for the world to rescue them.
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We consider them a symbol of American manifest destiny, yet we share them politely with Canada.
"We're still learning, we're still making mistakes, but to actually be in control of your own destiny means we can cut through a lot of stuff that maybe other boardrooms can't because it's real fans, " Goodwin says.
We, Scotland, have our destiny in our hands - we gave the ball up to Wales, but if we take care of the ball we can take care of the game.
"We really control all of our destiny now and all of our rights to everything we do now, so we can really experiment, " he said.
Instead of letting lobbyists and polluters control our destiny, we need to invest in American innovation.
"To demonstrate that we share a common destiny", he concluded, EU states would need to "share sovereignty".
We shape our own destiny with conviction, compassion, and clear and common purpose.
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We have no idea how much we have, how much it will accelerate and how quickly we will reach our destiny.
And because you made our campaign your own, because you believed in our ability to shape our own destiny, we won that chance to bring about real change.
In the United States, we control our own destiny.
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If we do that, I am confident that we can solve any problem and we can fulfill the destiny that America wants to see, not just next year, but in many years to come.
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In America we control our own destiny.
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As Americans, we make our own destiny.
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We control our own destiny (with help).
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And we determine our own destiny here.
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The arc of history has shown that human destiny is what we make of it.
They realize that all of us share a joint destiny, a common destiny, that we need to win the war against poverty.
That is not, as cynics would have it, simply a function of fewer people doing more, but of awareness that we are responsible for our destiny as never before.
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So those are all steps that we could be taking to strengthen the economy, to provide us some insurance if the situation overseas starts getting worse so we can control our own destiny, keep this recovery moving forward.
We tend to think of the sweep of destiny as stretching across many months and years before culminating in decisive moments we call history.
But with Destiny it seems like we are indeed finally experiencing some sort of revolution.
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But Africa's experience is unique, and we must now define our own destiny.
How were we to know that the inescapable destiny of heroes is defeat?
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