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• The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.

  Paul-Emile Victor

  Real, Adventure, Eye

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• We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

  Charlie Munger

  California, Textiles, Mills

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Feelings, Salvation

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

  Cliff Martinez

  Creative, Vision, Important

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Fashion, Strong, Men

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The earth is definitely doomed.

  Rupert Giles

  Earth

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ The Harvest/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

  Fred Rogers

  Sight, Anxiety, Would Be

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• The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

  Seth Klarman

  Mother, Believe, Men

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• When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

  Richard Halverson

  Biblical, Roots, Forget

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• If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

  Guy Finley

  House, Suffering, Ifs

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• If you know yourself, you are doomed.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Know Yourself, Knows, Ifs

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• There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the fortunate, then we'll just have to learn to live with the worst of times for millions of other Americans - that we're doomed to be a nation of the lucky and the left-out. I don't believe it. My mother didn't believe it. Your ancestors didn't believe it. And I don't think you should believe it.

  Mario Cuomo

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Entrepreneur, Patient

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

  Len Smith

  Opinion

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• I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

  Ann Beattie

  Book, Tone, Chance

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• If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Past, May

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• Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

  Ibn Warraq

  Atheism, Turns, Monotheism

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• We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Light, Poverty

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Weekend, Years, People

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

  Anne Lamott

  Rocks, Hands, Roots

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• All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fate, Perfect, Details

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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