Almost Invariably Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
— Blaise Pascal
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
— J. Frank Dobie
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously,…
— B. C. Forbes
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The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The…
— Martin Jacques
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
— Kenneth Clarke
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a…
— Adam Hochschild
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
— Henry David Thoreau
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