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• While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

  Tony Abbott

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rudd hands PM a crucial lifeline" by Laurie Oakes, www.heraldsun.com.au. August 6, 2010.

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• Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

  Susan Sontag

  Body, Compare, Seems

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• Our words must seem to be inevitable.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Our Words, Seems

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “Letters”

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• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Enzymes, Facts, Doe

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• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Illusion, Ends, Should

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• Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Mean, Elements, Pressure

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• I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

  Nikki Reed

  Loneliness, Moving, Cells

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• There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Race

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• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

  Mike Leigh

  Israel, Events, Century

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Crush, Struggle, Wind

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• I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Years, Forgiving

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children". Book by Phil Parham and Amy Parham, September 1, 2011.

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• It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

  Mark Pagel

  Motivation, Inspiration, Destiny

  "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

  Alice Randall

  Mother, Artist, Love Is

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• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  Laurance Labadie

  Mean, Opportunity, Income

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• Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Educational, Party, Independent

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• Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

  Majora Carter

  Destruction, Bronx, South

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• An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

  Alex Grey

  Love Is, Temples, Building

  "Creation is redemption". Interview with Eric Farwell, logger.believermag.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  Raymond Williams

  Despair, Radical, Convincing

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• An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

  Nick Bantock

  Ideas, Perspective, Events

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