"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them."

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Source : "On Man". 1849.

Rudolf Virchow

#Knowledge Quotes #Limits Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.”

Source : Harold Lindsell (1973). “The world, the flesh, and the Devil”
“Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.”
“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.”
“I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!”
“when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.”
“The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.”
“Most style is not honest enough.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'”, p.10, Harriman House Limited

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