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“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.”

Way Mean Understanding Challenges Seeing Awareness Events Theory Limits Commitment Roots Structure Currents Insight Willingness Deceiving Relentless Current Events

Author:Peter Senge

“The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.”

Memories Events Limits Inspired Endurance Farmers Severe Drought Ranchers Outer Limits

Author:Elmer Kelton

“It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.”

World Real Facts Causes Economy Events Demand Limits Real World Denied

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.”

Writing Stories Song Difficult Fiction Events Pure Limits

Author:Jason Mraz

“In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.”

Law Principles Effects Events Limits Discovery Tasks Uncertainty Uncertainty Principle

Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

“There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something together....We have to know our limits, I don't have the pretense I can change the world. And I don't want to set up events [to raise money]. Because what happens if the following year they don't have an event, they won't eat?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Years I Can Happens Together Events Limits Raises Productions Following Designer Changing The World Pretense

Author:Franca Sozzani

“6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.”

Ifs Men Way Life Is Our Lives Events Fields Limits Understood Eternity Endless Visuals Live In The Present Life Death Duration Timelessness Dens

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English

“As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!”

Men Feelings Language Grows Understanding Numbers Events Limits Vocabulary

Book:Plague of Angels

Source: Plague of Angels

“Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.”

Challenges Ability Stage Events Judging Development Limits Standards Oneself Crucial

Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day