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"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul," affirmed W.E. Henley's brave lines written on a hospital bed. But the measure of truth contained in them is only a limited one: they need the counterbalance, "I am the creature of my environment."

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 4 : Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea > # 21