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• Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Men, Imagination

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.362

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Law, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau, Eva Mae Burkett, Joyce S. Steward (1989). “Thoreau on writing”, Univ Pub Assoc

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• When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

  Simon Schama

  Forever, Shadow, Inability

  "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.

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• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Views, Religion

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Men, Long

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.433, Broadview Press

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• ...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Fear, Believe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

  Kage Baker

  Stupid, Pride, Race

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being

  Jim Perrin

  Loss, Men, Climbing

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• The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

  Clive James

  Art, New York, Believe

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

  Og Mandino

  Miracle, Mediocrity, Enthusiasm

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• When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Needs

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• The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Love Is, Like Love

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• Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Listeners

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.73

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• [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Government, Long, Trying

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Expression, Poison

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

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• Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Portraits, Oblivion

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.316, Penguin

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• Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Blood, Darkness

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• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Goodbye, Farewell, Hands

  R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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