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He who will not risk cannot win.
[Death:] The one inexorable thing!
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Spay or neuter your dog or cat so our shelters don't fill at inexorable rates.
Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.
Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.
If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.
There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.
I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.
The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.