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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
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socialism
inspirational
inevitability
apathy
marxism
capitalism
resistance
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Terry Eagleton |
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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
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mankind
time
man
futility
learning
fallen-nations
inevitability
nations
passing-of-time
materialism
knowledge
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H. Rider Haggard |
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Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.
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living
life
inevitability
dying
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive without Don Croce's protection. So be it. Do you want to be a hero like Guiliano, a legend? And dead? I love him as the son of my dear friends, but I do not envy him his fame. You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not be be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish." Michael sighed. "Guiliano had no choice," he said. "We are more fortunate," the Don said. It was the first lesson Michael received from his father and the one he learned best. It was to color his future life, persuade him to make terrible decisions he could never have dreamed of making before. It changed his perception of honor and heroism. It helped him survive, but it made him unhappy. For despite the fact that his father did not envy Guiliano, Michael did." --
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michael-corleone
the-sicilian
vito-corleone
the-godfather
inevitability
survival
mafia
honor
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Mario Puzo |
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I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.
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personality
life
inevitability
directions
decisions
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Jeanette Winterson |
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... murder wol out
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murder
humanity
inevitability
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything.
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inevitability
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Lauren Willig |