"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — David Attenborough
• You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
• The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and… — Eric Alterman
• Greater dooms win greater destinies. — Heraclitus
• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond… — Thomas Gray
• His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.… — William S. Burroughs
• This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came… — Janet Morris
• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for… — Samuel Adams
• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson
• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction… — Zhuangzi
• ‎What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as… — Janet Morris

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