A quotation from Golda Meir

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.

Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)

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A quotation from Emerson

Against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

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A quotation from Orwell

If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

Behind the veil the Gods their Secrets keep,
And past that curtain none may hope to peep;
   ne plot of earth is all we may secure.
Drink, then! for such philosophies are cheap.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 29 [tr. Talbot (1908)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/75494/

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A quotation from Chesterton, Gilbert Keith:

«
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
»

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https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/74179/

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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil

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A quotation from Eliot, George:

«
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
»

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https://wist.info/eliot-george/72029/

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam:

«
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
»

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https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/37611/

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A quotation from Lowell, James Russell:

«
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
»

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https://wist.info/lowell-james-russell/20200/

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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

«
Fate always wins. Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out until too late that he’s been using two queens all along.
»

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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/70707/

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A quotation from Twain, Mark:

«
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
»

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https://wist.info/twain-mark/45584/

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Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
I was on #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. ​:gi:​

A group of #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻

Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

Always there is. More. More #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​

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A quotation from Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von:

«
Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.

[Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Nothwendigkeit.]
»

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https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/67622/

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Been quite a nice sunny day today in #Glasgow
Back to the usual wet stuff tomorrow then and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and.... #weather #Inevitability

A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

«
NORTON I: I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.

DEATH: Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
»

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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/10064/

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A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

«

All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories — if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
»

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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/9455/

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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

«
The majority always has its way in the end. So does the undertaker. But neither gains in pleasantness by the fact.
»

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https://wist.info/mencken-hl/64367/

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-- Marshall McLuhan

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"There is no shelter from aging and #death.
Knowing this #inevitability,
Seek joy instead in the #goodness of your actions."
-- #Buddha