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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not ori...

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There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it...

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Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of gl...

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They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, an...

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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profo...

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All we are not stares back at what we are.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...

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Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone k...

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Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small...

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The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.

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Alice WalkerA Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and re...

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full po...

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All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warm...

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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a worl...

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I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much differencebetween an atomic scientist and a man who...

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Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more...

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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make th...

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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense o...

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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres...

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ConfuciusThe Life and Wisdom of Confucius

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wo...

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There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential ...

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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating...

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My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground ...

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As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessa...

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Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have fel...

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The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equali...

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People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a...

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Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, t...

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Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pess...

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The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...

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It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante,...

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When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time yo...

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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit whe...

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The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him ...

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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get do...

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I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, an...

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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

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We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it cou...

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But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a fl...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. ...

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest com...

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The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Tho...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Potential has a shelf life.

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the ...

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There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential vote...

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I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...

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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We ...

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Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

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Nathaniel BrandenSix Pillars of Self-Esteem

We must become what we wish to teach.

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream...

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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Miracle in World

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and...

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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you ...

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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabit...

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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves t...

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Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve...

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, a...

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Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill ...

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...

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But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endl...

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Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with...

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You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it some...

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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 2...

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