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Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
 
Great souls have wills; feeble souls have wishes.
 
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
 
I can’t control the wind, but I can adjust the sails.
 
The world is independent of my will.
 
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
 
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