Inevitability Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  David Zindell

  War, Fall, Men

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Men

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• The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Reason, Accepting, Dies

  "Family Guy (Road to Europe)". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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

  Epictetus

  Fighting, Limits, Accepting

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• Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

  Fritz Stern

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan

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• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

  Julie Powell

  Fighting, Eggs, Atoms

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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.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  People, Judging, Vision

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.189, Penguin UK

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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.

  Bill Bailey

  Stupid, Three, Littles

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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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

  Wise, Character, Successful

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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.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

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• Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Art, War, Believe

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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

  George Packer

  Character, Destiny, Scandal

  "The Trouble with Christie" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 13, 2014.

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