#inevitable

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today. ↗

— Darrell Issa

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A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. ↗

— William Shatner

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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

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