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“No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.”

Thinking Should Believe States United United States Weapons Mass Destruction Don't Believe Inevitable Als Bin Laden Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Al Qaeda Inevitability Osama Bin Laden

Author:Michael Scheuer

“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.”

Made Form Fighting Energy Lost Meat Eggs Mediocrity Atoms Decay Cream Secretary Delicious Inevitability Sustenance Confederation

Author:Julie Powell

“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”

Ideas Challenges Forget Dangerous Clouds Status Quo Embedded Inevitability Dangerous Ideas

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.”

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Believe Might Happens Individual I Believe Differences Study Happened Elements Remembered Making A Difference Openness Decency Inevitability

Book:Five Germanys I Have Known

Source: Five Germanys I Have Known

“It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.”

I Can Important Pay Responsibility Humility Paid Personal Responsibility Resignation Inevitability Pay It Forward

Author:Maya Angelou

“For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.”

Different Past Events Limits Lays Patterns Outcomes Assumption Allies Historian Hindsight Enabling Inevitability Treacherous Mirages Past Events

Book:Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

Source: Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

“I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.”

Want Remember Animal Study Inevitability Homeopathy

Author:Jane Goodall

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

Fighting Accepting Limits Inevitability Accepting Life

Author:Epictetus

“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.”

Mind Book Ends Night Found Dying Promise Opposites Blue Illness Warning Brightness Fading Inevitability

Book:Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”

Knows Waiting Chance My Own Fate Events Fixed Sat Inevitability

Book:A House in the Sky

Source: A House in the Sky

“War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.”

War Including Inevitability Generalities

Book:La douleur

Source: La douleur

“When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.”

Needs May I Can Business Gone Bed Delusion Working It Inevitability Back To Work

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.”

People Use Drug Conscience Historical Radical Inevitability

Author:Lester Bangs

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.”

Want I Can Remember Actors Levels Inevitability

Author:Rebecca Hall

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