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But I'm not a fatalist; if I were, I wouldn’t have written this book or spent my life trying to protect our country.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024

“This area has the lifestyle we like and the values we like,” he said, taking a fatalist view of natural hazards.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

My father was a fatalist, a mathematician who believed in gambling in the stock market while his own mantra was, “When your number’s up, it’s up.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022

Newsom’s predecessor, four-term Gov. Jerry Brown, was a fatalist about wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2020

Mrs. Beaverbrook, the fatalist, practically burst into tears and said in a timid little voice, “Oh, it’s so awful. Oh, the guns are so loud!”—which is another way of saying “I’m so scared.”

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank