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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political." »Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility" »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error." »Alvin Toffler
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"Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I dwell in possibility..." »Emily Dickinson
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"I dwell in possibility." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." »Thomas Huxley
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"I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them." »Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4 , final paragraph
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"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me." »Keri Hulme
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"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility." »Aristotle
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." »Salvador Dali
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"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." »John Updike
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"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something." »Chauncey Depew
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"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen
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"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." »Don Fraser
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"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case." »Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America
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"May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility." »Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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"Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility." »Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
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"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise." »Lewis Thomas
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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." »Robert Lynd
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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." »Samuel Smiles
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"The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never." »Søren Kierkegaard
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"Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty." »Lionel Trilling
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"Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant." »Sun-tzu
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"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race." »Karl Shapiro
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." »Foster C. McClellan
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