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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Seneca the Younger

Laughter, Fate, Hands

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I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.

Prince Charles

Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

"The Prince of Wales: Full text of replies in radio debut". "The Times" Newspaper, March 3, 1969.

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In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Virgil

Age, Unhappy, Youth

Virgil (1825). “The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden”, p.84

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Judging, Ideals

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My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

Wilder Penfield

Children, Giving, Parent

Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (2014). “Speech and Brain Mechanisms”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

Determination, Destiny, Ideas

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.

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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

Frank J. Tipler

Christian, Dream, Atheist

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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

Ian Kershaw

Long, History, Special

Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

James A. Baldwin

Law, Justice, Humanity

"Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.

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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

Galileo Galilei

Nature, Men, Law

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

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[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

Frederick Douglass

War, Light, Government

Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Facts, World, Intense

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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

Elizabeth Bowen

Bullying, Travel, Sight

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Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Marcus Eremita

Forgiveness, Justice, Sin

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But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

Beryl Markham

War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

Moon, Sky, Earth

Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

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[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Louise Imogen Guiney

Death

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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

Robert Burns

Jealous, Heaven, Atheism

Robert Burns (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.256

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For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to a balance of payments. No one remains overdrawn forever. Destiny's bank is inexorable, all accounts must balance.

Dorothy Fuldheim

Destiny, Forever, Balance

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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Believe, Men, Sea

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psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Jean Baker Miller

Psychology, Growth, Facts

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You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

C. S. Lewis

Dog, Sex, Children

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We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

Jimmy Carter

Nature, Animal, Law

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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

W. P. Kinsella

Work, Writing, Use

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Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

Bill Bradley

Success, Sports, Athlete

Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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