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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

  Gary Snyder

  World, Might, Firsts

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• Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

  Chip Kidd

  Anticipation, Certainty

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• Where beats a heart within a human breast,
  There be Thou present, and Thy power adored!
  And oh! since all one common race are doom'd
  To run, and one eternal goal to reach,
  May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm
  With tender sympathy and truth; may man
  To man be link'd to man in fellowship of soul,
  Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!

  Robert Montgomery

  Running, Heart, Men

  "The Omnipresence of the Deity: And Other Poems".

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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• Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sins Not, Shadow, Novelists

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• But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong,
  Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

  Edmund Spenser

  Justice, Doe, Lasts

  "The Faerie Queene, Book Five".

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy…

  Andy Milonakis

  Crazy, Boxes

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.

  Julian Simon

  Believe, Hands, Evil

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• The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Opportunity, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

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• Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
  The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Greek

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.165

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• Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Community, Liberty, Principles

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.323

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• Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

  Clive James

  Men, Car, Trying

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

  Ronald Reagan

  Past

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Should, Young

  "Twice Told Tales". Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837, 1851.

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• Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

  Alfred the Great

  Rich, Poor, Foe

  The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.

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• Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Dark, Sea

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.46, DEBOLS!LLO

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Errors, Evil, Healthy

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• Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Drug, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Taken, Hands

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Cities, Would Be

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Wall, Book

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• Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Men, Fairy

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