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• The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Keys, Digital Revolution, World

  "Intelligence in the Internet Age". New York Times, September 19, 2005.

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Simplicity, Simple Life

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.

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• Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

  Max Frisch

  Fate, Men, Finals

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• Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Order, Numbers

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• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

  P. D. James

  Sex, World, Firsts

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Apr 30, 2013

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• The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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• The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

  Edward Abbey

  Oxygen, Rebel, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Evil, May

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Men, Imagination

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.362

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• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

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• Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

  Og Mandino

  Memorable, Giving, Accomplishment

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• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Fate

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

  George Amos Dorsey

  War, Sleep, Fate

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• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Party, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.507, Princeton University Press

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• Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rights, Liberty, Authority

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• If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Goal, Forever

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religious, Religion, Cosmos

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• Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Genius, Mediocrity, Politics

  Remarks at a Promotion Ceremony for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, December 3, 1973.

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• Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Crazy, Real, Tired

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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