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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only… — Joyce Johnson
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability… — Chester Himes
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in… — Jacques Ellul
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human… — Eric Hoffer
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our… — Molly Ivins
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as… — David Guterson
Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war… — Morihei Ueshiba
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have… — Ethan Mordden
Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability. — Bill Bailey
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are… — Leonard Mlodinow
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe… — Michael Scheuer
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,… — Julie Powell
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so… — Jacob M. Appel
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could… — Fritz Stern
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free. — Epictetus
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the… — Amanda Lindhout
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely… — Karen Russell
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I… — Daniel Day-Lewis

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