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“Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.”

People Feels Kind States Government Past Strong Growth Natural Seeing Century Anxiety Weak Inevitable Alarms Smack Strong Government Weak Government

Author:Irving Kristol

“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“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

“Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.”

States Evil Natural Civilization Consequence Prepared Inevitable

Author:Robert E. Howard

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

Humor Language Born Natural Effort Situation Fate Conscious Wit Inevitable Irony Artificial

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.”

Littles Earth Natural Accepting Conditions Planets Inevitable Adjusting

Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.”

Seems Natural Vision Eating Mediums Inevitable Breathing Poetry Is Sensibility Cadence

Author:Robert Pinsky

“At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.”

Age Natural Youth Illusion Old Age Inevitable Pleasant Boredom Cherish

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.”

Knows States Character Form Natural Economy Democracy Capitalism Inequality Communism Inevitable Abandon Hypothesis Monstrous Market Economy Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Alain Badiou

“Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.”

Natural Results Products Habit Inevitable Excitement Intoxication

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.”

Ends Age Natural Embrace Old Age Inevitable Treatment Usual Dread

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.”

Knows Natural Media Television Authority Concepts Inevitable Experts Meaningless Expertise Proliferation

Author:John Hodgman