#sooner or later

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. ↗

— Xun Zi

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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. ↗

— James Hillman

#call #got #i #i am #later

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#certainly #comedy #context #dramatic #find

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ↗

— Evo Morales

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. ↗

— James Payn

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