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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a c...

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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

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

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

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Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true ...

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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ...

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It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

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A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of deal...

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All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. ...

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In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost ...

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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

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Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it wil...

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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.- Friar Tuck

I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our h...

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Hope is a passion for the possible.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

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Søren KierkegaardThe Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult becau...

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need...

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These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim a...

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Tim O'Brien (author)In the Lake of the Woods

At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There...

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Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a mot...

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Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf acci...

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A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibili...

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All things lie dark in possibility.

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creati...

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The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibilit...

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To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!

Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objecti...

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Antonio GramsciSelections from the Prison Notebooks

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certai...

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Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any v...

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Arthur C. ClarkeTales from Planet Earth

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view...

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to whic...

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Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively...

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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light....

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In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possi...

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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the...

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Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way h...

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The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for some...

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Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what ne...

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Giorgio AgambenPotentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

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

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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...

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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los...

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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibil...

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I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering...

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The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to ...

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Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...

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I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days