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Quotes about Inevitability

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. Votes: 4

Chuck Jones

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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. Votes: 4

Gian Carlo Menotti

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Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. Votes: 4

George Packer

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. Votes: 4

Alfred Adler

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That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. Votes: 4

Meredith Monk

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No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. Votes: 4

Michael Scheuer

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Votes: 4

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. Votes: 4

Maurice Ravel

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The inevitability of gradualness. Votes: 2

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

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There is no suspense in inevitability. Votes: 2

Damon Lindelof

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Votes: 2

Pablo Neruda

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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen. Votes: 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it. Votes: 2

Jay Samit

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Votes: 2

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Votes: 2

Peter Conrad

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Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. Votes: 2

Sylvester Stallone

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Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it. Votes: 2

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Votes: 2

Marshall McLuhan

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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free. Votes: 2

Epictetus

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Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. Votes: 2

Martin Donovan

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I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing. Votes: 2

Michael Scheuer

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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability. Votes: 2

Bill Bailey

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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level. Votes: 2

Rebecca Hall

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I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist. Votes: 2

Holt McCallany

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Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it. Votes: 2

Allen Klein

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This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. Votes: 2

Jim Walsh

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People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job. Votes: 2

Deval Patrick

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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. Votes: 2

John Green

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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be. Votes: 2

J. J. Abrams

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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. Votes: 2

Morris Raphael Cohen

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I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability. Votes: 2

Jane Green

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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. Votes: 2

Lester Bangs

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The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Votes: 2

Arundhati Roy

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Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. Votes: 2

Morris Raphael Cohen

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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. Votes: 2

Rick Perlstein

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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. Votes: 2

Daniel Day-Lewis

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms. Votes: 2

Victor Hugo

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I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. Votes: 2

Sherwin B. Nuland

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This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning. Votes: 2

Joan Didion

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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. Votes: 2

Marc Ian Barasch

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No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible. Votes: 2

Raymond Moody

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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it. Votes: 0

Felix Frankfurter

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Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. Votes: 0

David Cronenberg

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The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability. Votes: 0

Seth MacFarlane

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy. Votes: 0

Kate Millett

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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. Votes: 0

Martha Graham

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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. Votes: 0

G. H. Hardy

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People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Dionne Brand

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Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Italo Calvino

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It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. Votes: 0

Robert M. Sapolsky

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... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ... Votes: 0

M. F. K. Fisher

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We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor. Votes: 0

Bryan Stevenson

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Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. Votes: 0

Marty Nemko

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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected. Votes: 0

Dennis Kucinich

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Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty. Votes: 0

Hans F. Sennholz

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Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine. Votes: 0

Alexis Hall

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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun. Votes: 0

Patricia Briggs

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Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement. Votes: 0

Robert Rauschenberg

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We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. Votes: 0

Erwin Griswold

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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Chester Himes

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I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet. Votes: 0

Sam Keen

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We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions." Votes: 0

Leonard Mlodinow

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We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions. Votes: 0

Leonard Mlodinow

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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then"A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss. Votes: 0

Peggy Orenstein

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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy. Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but. Votes: 0

David Salle

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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. Votes: 0

Christopher Lasch

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And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. Votes: 0

Karen Russell

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For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man. Votes: 0

David Zindell

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Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy

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The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong. Votes: 0

Molly Ivins

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I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

Hugh Howey

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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

Louise Erdrich

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I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

Jackson Pollock

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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Jacob M. Appel

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With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

Clive Barker

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Leo Tolstoy

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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Constanze Mozart

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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren't realized . So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Henry A. Kissinger

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For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

Eric Foner

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There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

Richard P. Feynman

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The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.

Greg Gutfeld

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

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We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

George W. Bush

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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

Dale E. Turner

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Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

Joyce Johnson

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Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

Elizabeth Bowen

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A revolution is coming " a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough " but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

John F. Kennedy

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[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.

Murray Bookchin

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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.

Thomas Keating

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I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."

Tohoru Masamune

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If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

David Limbaugh

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With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

Christophe Agou

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To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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