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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, Envy

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• This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

  David Bowie

  Mad, Said, Bowie

  "New again: David Bowie". Interview with Patrick Salvo, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Nihilism, Belief, Moments

  "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".

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• With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Esteem, Color, People

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• We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Disappointment, Secret, Might

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• Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Flower, Journey, Three

  Mercedes Lackey (1989). “Oathbreakers”, p.220, Penguin

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• I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Suicide, Fall, Glasses

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.131, Profile Books

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• With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Discovery, Two

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

  Christopher Paolini

  Wise, Cabbage, Matter

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.697, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Names, Trying, Failing

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Work, Pregnancy, Character

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• You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

  Gena Showalter

  Believe, Years, Speak

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Beauty Awakened”, p.53, HQN Books

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• Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Evil, Holocaust, Humanity

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

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• Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

  Julie Burchill

  Insecure, Careers, Ageing

  Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.

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• We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Effort, Reform

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.

  Robbie Rist

  Crazy, Entertainment, You Re Pretty

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Commitment

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.

  Noy Holland

  Baby, Art, Reading

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• This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

  Harry Frank Guggenheim

  Aviation, Predictions, Fellows

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• Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Two, Matter

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• We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

  Dean Kamen

  Fate, Ideas, World

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• The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Miracle

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

  Nancy Spero

  Book, School, Math

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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