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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. – Aristotle
Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility. – Dejan Stojanovic
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
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility. – Bryant McGill
I dwell in possibility... – Emily Dickinson
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing. – Gamal Abdel Nasser
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. – Don Fraser
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. – Theodore Roosevelt
A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant. – Manfred Eigen
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine. – Newell Dwight Hillis
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
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
Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. – Salvador Dali
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike
Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility. – Louise Suggs
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. – Thomas Huxley
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
I dwell in possibility. – Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there. – Monica Baldwin
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
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
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Noel Adams
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen Jay Gould
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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