"He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself."

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Different Quotes

“India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.”
“I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.”

Source : "Glencore IPO Pushes Ex-Fugitive Billionaire Marc Rich Out Of The Shadows" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. May 23, 2011.
“Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?”
“A carpenter is known by his chips.”
“A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.”
“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.”
“Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.”

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