“ For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. ”
- Gary Mark Gilmore- Copy
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“ A serene fortitude in the face of disappointment and chagrin should be our goal. If you have evaded all unhappiness in life your happiness is place in unstable equilibrium by the constant dread that some unavoidable disappointment is just around the corner… ”
- W. Beran Wolfe- Copy
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“ Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 667
“ All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow. Acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separations; birthes, in death. Knowing this, one should from the very first renounce acquisitions and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and…set about realizing Truth. ”
- Milarepa- Copy
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“ The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion… . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 521
“ A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
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“ The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
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“ Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
- 802
“ Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others… ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process. ”
- Jerzy Grotowski- Copy
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