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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

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Genetic predispositions are only that: predispositions. It’s not a destiny written in stone. People have choices.

Dr. Jennifer Melfi

The Sopranos

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"Down Neck." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Lorraine Senna, season 1, episode 7, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 1999.

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Free will and determinism... Are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play your hand represents free will.