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a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable

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a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

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In doing so, he had simply obeyed the laws of his nature, and we have good reason to believe that he was, to some extent, a fatalist, but of an orthodox school of fatalism withal, that led him to rely upon himself and even upon Providence.
When, however, most unexpectedly, it came home to roost in Brett Street, Mr Verloc, who had been struggling like a man in a nightmare for the preservation of his position, accepted the blow in the spirit of a convinced fatalist. The position was gone through no one's fault really.
Before professional fatalists begin to draw weird inferences as they are wont to, it is crucial to highlight the absurdity in having residents living atop petroleum pipelines in a congested neighbourhood and in the kind of urban settlement that Lagos represents.
Fatalists. They claim that economic prosperity came about simply because some nations had the good fortune of favorable geographic factors, such as moderate weather, abundant natural resources, and useful animals from the beginning, so it was inevitable that they would become rich while others would remain poor.
From the Bible to Nostradamus, the Mayan calendar and the Millennium Bug, fatalists, fantasists and the fervently religious have long been fascinated by the end of the world.
The fatalists the Reds' would trip to a pressure thing needs If Bilic really is 'one game from the sack' then Liverpool could be the ones to stamp his P45 for him on Saturday evening, though the fatalists among the Reds fanbase would suggest that a trip to a club under pressure is the last thing this team needs right now.
But, despite widespread enthusiasm about Macron's victory, most of us remain subconscious fatalists on the matter of political globalization.
Pity the fatalists who like to believe everything happens for a reason.
The response of pessimists and fatalists to all of this good news is, of course, that there is only so much good luck to be dished out and what if we have already had more than our fair share?
Additionally, the European musician Hugo Race (of the Bad Seeds, Dirtmusic, Fatalists fame) contributes an array of subtle atmospherics on guitar and keyboards.
This can explain why fatalists do slightly better on the total score for this four question "quiz." It is interesting to compare other statistics between those who believe that they cannot do much about the environment (fatalists) and those who believe they can.
We can identify several major European views, three of which are long-term: the "fatalists," the "democracy believers," and the "skeptics." Another two are influenced by short-term developments: the "peacemakers" and the "modus vivendi."