"Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?"
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"There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment."
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"We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own."
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"I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there."
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"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."
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"The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight."
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"Happiness too is inevitable."
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"The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it."
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"Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living."
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"If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less."
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"Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable."
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"In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable."
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"Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable."
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"A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar."
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"Our words must seem to be inevitable."
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"The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering."
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"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."
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"The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage."
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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."
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"We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us."
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