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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

“People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.”

People Knows World Writing Believe Might Jobs Asks I Believe Know How Limits Mere Ask Me Novelists Propose

Author:Jose Saramago

“Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.”

Men Action Law Choices Born Limits Mere Greece Free Choice

Author:Edith Hamilton

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.”

Writing Book Evil Names Limits Gains Raises Mere Sake Vanity Acquire Multitudes Fever Raise Up

Author:Martin Luther

“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth”

Years May Has Beens Ends Form Wealth Stage Divine Flower Source Limits Late Lows Dancing Mere Glorious This Day Phases Inward Professionalism Fading Frivolous Proficiency May Flowers

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.”

People Mean Stories Reality Courses Stars Growth Imagination Destiny Limits Overcoming Mere Obstacles Shakes

Author:John Michael Greer

“The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?”

Humans Body Goal Natural Ability Levels Technology Cutting Generations Limits Tools Mere Edges Available Faster Evolve Human Body Exceed New Generation Cutting Edge Amputees

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.”

Ends Certain Energy Existence Subjects Limits Mere Silent Satisfaction Active Faculty Investigation Providing Passive Wretched Confined Resignation Inquiring

Book:THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”

Humans Self Water Human Beings Limits Ocean Mere Unlimited Fountain Recycling Reservoirs

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”

Thinking Humans Mean Reality Girl Names Human Beings Limits Female Empowerment Opposites Mere Males Someday Complement

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke