Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

Isaac Newton
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) wrote, "A man can’t make himself; he is what he makes himself. He is what the circumstances of his life cause him to be. Nature does not make men; circumstances do."

Source: The Principia: Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy

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