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“Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.”

Given Century Events Israel Inevitable 20th Century 19th Century Zionism

Author:Mike Leigh

“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”

People Knows Littles Courses Natural Prayer Events Radical Inevitable Radical Change

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”

Years May Matter Would Be Millions Events Hundred Scales Inevitable Unthinkable Matter Of Time

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.”

Form Events Fool Inevitable Fixed Unfolding

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.”

People World Wells Stills War Courses Half Known Millions Learning Events Goes On Horror Disease Experience Spread Inevitable Well Known Ruined Futility Inconvenience Pox

Book:Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

Source: Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

“Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.”

Doe Happens Events Inevitable Stink Inevitability

Book:A Wave: Poems

Source: A Wave: Poems

“God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.”

Seems Heaven Events Inevitable Dominion

Author:Euripides