Sentences with phrase «rebel against their fate»

Divided into three sections, the story starts in 1978, in a posh boarding school in the English countryside where children are kept obedient, docile and more or less unaware of what's expected of them, or at least unwilling to rebel against their fate.

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But when a person chronically pities himself, rebels at fate and thinks the world or the Lord has a grudge against him, gets angry over trifles and scolds or swears at the people around him, frustration is likely to be at the bottom of it.
At bottom the Samaritans shared the fate of all those who, though appealing perhaps to age - old traditions, rebel against a situation that has evolved over a long period of time, and try to base their life on historical conditions which have long since disappeared.
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