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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and...

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In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most i...

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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the ...

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The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like string...

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Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, any...

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...

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Søren KierkegaardEither/Or: A Fragment of Life

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the on...

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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibili...

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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this ide...

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The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the const...

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Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpre...

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Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul. Her...

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbab...

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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great".

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...

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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, u...

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We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility ...

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...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world al...

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A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the...

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....

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We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, b...

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I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, ...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

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Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours di...

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..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...

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If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the...

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It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...

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