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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Laziness

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• Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.

  George Jonas

  Disappointment, Believe, Home

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• Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

  Aristotle

  Intelligent, Dignity, Talent

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• You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Wise, Choices

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

  Bette Davis

  Congratulations, Apples, Goal

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

  Malcolm X

  Way, Doom, Ifs

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, War, Ocean

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 13: "Who Speaks for Earth?", 1990.

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• It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Drug, Finals

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• ...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

  George Orwell

  Humans, Dies, Human Beings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1359, Penguin UK

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• Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

  Ovid

  Women, Autumn, Light

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Philosophy, Sadness

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

  Martin Filler

  Art, School, Design

  "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Views, Shining

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• If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Women, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 08, 2015

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• I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

  Frank McCourt

  Use, Croquet

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Men

  1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.11.

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• My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Father, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr

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• You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stakes, Repeats, Knows

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• It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

  Gail Collins

  Appreciate, Feelings, Age

  "Collins: Letter to young American women" by Gail Collins, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2009.

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• It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

  Barbara Mertz

  Disappointment, Pessimist, Optimist

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• We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Choices, May

  Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin (2016). “The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism”, p.11, Brookings Institution Press

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• thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

  Stephen Hawking

  Black, Holes, Ifs

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• You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Cells, Two, Joy

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• He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Laughing, Trying, Mankind

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1352, Dell

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