#inevitable

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#arrange #atom #develop #even #inevitable

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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#help #i #i think #inevitable #learn

We believe world peace is inevitable. ↗

— Anne Perry

#inevitable #peace #world #world peace

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

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#bit #die #going #inevitable #little

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. ↗

— William Shatner

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