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• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wise, Chinese, Comprehending

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.243, Open Road Media

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• Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Contemplating, Willing, Ifs

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

  Megan McCafferty

  Growing Up, Might, Intention

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.458, Crown

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• Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

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• The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

  Nima Arkani-Hamed

  Impossible, Universe

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• Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Humanity, Risk, Vision

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• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

  Brian Eno

  Impact, Decline, Shock

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• Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

  Michael Haneke

  Different, Accepting, Feels

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• The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fall, Humility, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Acceptance, Predictions

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• I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

  William Shatner

  Believe, Happens, I Believe

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• It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sadness, Friendly, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

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• Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Change, Jobs, Inevitable Change

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.

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• Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Insightful, Marketing, Economy

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• I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

  Jesse Ventura

  Responsibility, Thinking, Order

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.34, Villard

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• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Greatest Fear, Cities

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• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

  Andrew Young

  Change, Achievement, Black History

  Andrew Young (1994). “A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

  Loretta Young

  Disappointment, Mistake, Reality

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• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Government, Korea, Choices

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• Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Life Changing, Simple, Transition

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• The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Laughing, Enemy

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Loneliness, Solitary Life, Facts

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