Almost Inevitably Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to…
— Wendell Berry
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Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
— Colin Powell
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
— Jacques Barzun
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions…
— Aaron Siskind
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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
— Tobias Wolff
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If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a…
— Robert Reich
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay…
— James McGreevey
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.…
— H. L. Mencken
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
— Satyajit Ray
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
— Robert Reich
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
— Bertrand Russell
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
— Aldous Huxley
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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences…
— C.S. Lewis
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The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world…
— Jules Verne
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There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
— Richard Schickel
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself...Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion…
— HL Mencken America Writer 1880-1956
Who Wrote These Almost Inevitably Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Almost Inevitably Quotes as follows: