"Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man."

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Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 23,

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Powerful Quotes #Men Quotes #Threatening Quotes

“Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.”
“Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.”
“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”
“I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.”
“I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.”
“Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.”

Source : Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf
“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org

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