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“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”

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Hamlet says it while accepting that his own decisions have been bent out of shape by events he did not choose. The clause that follows, about rough-hewing, is the part that matters for anyone trying to change their circumstances.

Source: Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2

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