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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. Thompson

Between, Rest, Difference

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

Death, Knowledge, Human

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Greatest, Choices

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson

Life, Future, Blow

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James

Life, Find, While

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
Chuck Palahniuk

Happen, Leaving, Moment

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Death, Thoughts

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure, Human, Actions

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Henry Miller

Through, Whatever, Needs

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

Failure, Human, Actions

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Goal

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
Drew Barrymore

Hate, Small, Hell

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton

Learning, Try, Learn

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

Talk, Nonsense, Arithmetic

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

Artist, Color, Intentions

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris

Life, Art, Long

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio

America, Another, American

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch

Future, Present, Shall

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey Newton

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan

Alone, Failure, Car

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller

Strength, Knowledge, Cannot

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Anne Lamott

Death, Black, Again

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin

Women, Attitude, Important

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman

Funny, Great, Battle

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Marriage, Time

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
Michael Palin

Nothing, Person, Wanted

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

Marriage, Happy, Girl

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack

Love, Person, Talk

Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.
Eliot Spitzer

Him, Sacrifice, Social

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