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Aeschylus emphasized that the gods shaped our fates.
"The survivors," she wrote, "would henceforth be haunted by the oldest, most vexing question of all: whether there is a destiny that shapes our fates or whether it is simply a matter of chance, of luck, of the way the wind blows".
Life and death, suffering and success, love and hate and the mysterious forces that shape our fates are constant concerns for the self-probing, self-vindicating, self-lacerating characters of the play.
The mass exodus from New Orleans has revealed a lot about how much your neighborhood can shape your fate.
A lot of Purity is about serious, old-fashioned stuff like honor, debt (of all different sorts), secrets, murder, and how your parentage can shape your fate.
Where do citizens get a chance to shape the fate of their communities?
Trends in spending will also shape the fate of an industry that accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's biggest economy.
And where he could once shape his fate by reaching for poetry in his own words, he is now hostage to a large extent to monthly job-creation and unemployment numbers churned out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All of these power struggles have helped shape the fate of the region — and they will almost surely continue long after the battle to recapture the north is over.
