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• Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

  Arthur Keith

  Cities, Organization, People

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

  Dolly Parton

  Birthday, Faces, Aging

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• If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.77, A&C Black

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• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Religion, Stressed

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Swings, Long

  "Bishop's Heaven: Is There Life After the Afterlife?" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2008.

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• If one can surrender, if one can trust the Master, one has surrendered to God, one has trusted God. And sooner or later one is bound to come out under the sky. One will remain grateful to the Master forever because without the window there was no sky, there were only walls. But one has to go through the Master and go beyond. One should not cling to the window; the window frame should not become a hindrance.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Grateful, Sky

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wise, Life Lesson, Good Day

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• People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, World, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Once Upon A Time, Machines

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Strong, Cat, Animal

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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Hair, Rude

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• I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's
  part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

  Jenni Rivera

  Writing, Emotional, Details

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• The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

  Ken Follett

  Degradation, Subjects

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• Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

  Dean Ornish

  Offering, Choices, Six

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tree, Pruning, Stones

  sylvia townsend warner (1948). “mr. fortune's maggot”

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• I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

  Octavia St. Laurent

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Soul, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

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• Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

  Ettore Messina

  Volleyball, Giving Up, People

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• Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Moving, Careers, Female

  Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”

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• Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

  Mick Delaney

  Inspirational, Motivation, Pay

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• It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.

  Louis Sullivan

  Art, Healing, Inspire

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Life Changing

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

  Spike Lee

  Women, Want, Figures

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• Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

  Julian Huxley

  Thinking, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  "Traveller's Library (Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles)". Book edited by William Somerset Maugham, 1933.

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• Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

  Ned Rorem

  Real, Tolerance, Your Best Friend

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.64, Open Road Media

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