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«Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.»
«The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.»
Author: Peter Conrad
| Keywords:
aggrandize, aggrandizing, historian, inevitability, innocuous, portent, promoting
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
| Keywords:
best man, common good, common man, Down These Mean Streets, For any, good enough, good weather, hero, inevitability, instinct, Mean Streets, phrase, tarnished, The Best Man, unusual, weathered
«And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| About:
Aesthetics,
Beauty
| Keywords:
aesthetic, belonged, Garden of, inevitability, savage, The Garden, vampire, vampires, verified, verifies, verifying
«Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Action,
Suffering
| Keywords:
accordance, inevitability, peculiar, suffers, teleology
«We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are only here because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
at random, bangs, dominant, extraterrestrial, fluke, inevitability, random
«There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplate, inevitability, willingness
«Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
backs, bent, continuous, inevitability, in on, ride, roll, straighten, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, wheels
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