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#inevitability

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The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.


Omar Khayyám


#inevitability #life #time #life

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...


Stanisław Lem


#cycles #despair #emotion #fear #free-will

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.


J. J. Abrams


#drawing #even #ever #fun #genre

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.


Jamaica Kincaid


#inevitability #life #life

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.


Lester Bangs


#before #coming #conscience #far #had

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.


Jim Walsh


#away #conflict #echoes #freedom #given

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.


Chuck Jones


#inevitability #long #think #willingness

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.


Maurice Ravel


#chance #clear #composition #equation #found






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