"Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't."

-- Nadeem Aslam

#World Quotes #Paper Quotes #Handle Quotes

“Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.”
“Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”
“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.149, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.”
“If youâ€™re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesnâ€™t count.”
“If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?”
“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.”

Source : Interview with John Hansen, www.bodybuilding.com. August 10, 2014.

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