#inevitable

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ↗

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. ↗

— Horace Mann

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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#education #end #getting #go #going

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. ↗