"Not just happen, but made to happen" (FDR?)

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>From Google Answers. FDR pre-WWI sounds bogus.
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    Subject: Quotation
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Asked by: pakorrwk-ga
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Looking for the original author of the quotation "Things do not merely

happen, they are made to happen."  It has been attributed to John F.

Kennedy but I wrote it down in my diary in the early 1940s so I think

it was either Thoreau or Franklin Roosevelt.  Thank you for your help.

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    Subject: Re: Quotation
From:  _pinkfreud-ga_
(http://answers.google.com/answers/ratings?user=8557989531679117785)   on 27 Jan 2005 14:54 PST
Here a similar quote is attributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt:



"To those who believe that a chaotic world is a more plausible

explanation for wierd [sic] happenings, I can only point to the

following remark by F.D.R. before the first world war: 'Things in

politics do not just happen; they are made to happen...I will be

Secretary of the Navy, governor of New York, and president, in that

order'.

And he was."



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Burns Mantle. Chicago Daily Tribune  (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Oct 25,
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It has the common fault of similar plays of never suggesting reality in its
emotions or its scenes. Things happen because they are made to happen.
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Los Angeles Times  (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 25, 1940. p.
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In short, on a football field there is no such thing as coincidence, happy
or otherwise. Things do not "just happen," they are MADE to happen, one team
does a job of patsying the other gents.
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