Inevitable Quotes - Page 17

• Change is inevitable, progress is not.

  Max McKeown

  Progress, Change Is Inevitable

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  Laurance Labadie

  Mean, Opportunity, Income

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• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  Kat Cole

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

  Lance Morrow

  Leader, Exceptional

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• Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Educational, Party, Independent

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• Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

  Majora Carter

  Destruction, Bronx, South

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• An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

  Alex Grey

  Love Is, Temples, Building

  "Creation is redemption". Interview with Eric Farwell, logger.believermag.com. March 28, 2016.

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• When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  Raymond Williams

  Despair, Radical, Convincing

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• If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Difficulty, Concern

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• An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

  Nick Bantock

  Ideas, Perspective, Events

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• It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Unhappy Person, Suffering

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

  Gijs de Vries

  Change, Technology

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• Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Confusion, World, Spirit

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Eggs, Long, Parent

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, World, Perceive

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

  John Pentland Mahaffy

  Ireland And The Irish, Unexpected, Funny Irish

  "Mahaffy". P. 79. Book by W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell, 1971.

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• Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

  Robert Scoble

  Opportunity, Causes, Disruption

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• Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

  Michael Hyatt

  Stories, Way, Taxes

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• The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Training, Here And There, Landscape

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

  Doug Bandow

  Responsibility, Availability, Impact

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• Smiling in Heaven isn't required - it's inevitable.

  Mike Bickle

  Heaven

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