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• One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

  Lee Smolin

  Organize, Universe

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• Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Way, Speak

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.70, e-artnow

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• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  John Warnock

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Life Changing, Forever, Mind

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Common, Graves, Trenches

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

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• Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

  Marc Bolan

  Tree, Our Lives

  Song: Dragon's Ear

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• The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Weaving, Facts, Existence

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2002). “This Craft of Verse”, p.100, Harvard University Press

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• It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

  Kenneth Koch

  Seems

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• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

  June Jordan

  Hate, Requirements, Language

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

  Claire Messud

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• My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Strong, Guarantees That, Leader

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• Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

  Iain Banks

  Technology, Matter, Communist

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• But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Men, Personality

  "Systematic Theology".

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• As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Creativity, Mean, Past

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• We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

  Maya Angelou

  Promise, Seeming, Seeing

  "The 3 Lessons Maya Angelou Taught Us About Coping" by Jan Bruce, www.mequilibrium.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Intimacy

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Jobs, Luxury

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• There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Attitude, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Art, Cutting, Order

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• ...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

  Anthony Braxton

  Music, People, Universalism

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• When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.

  George Grosz

  Morning, Successful, Knowing

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• Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Benevolent

  "Defeating Darwinism in Our Culture" panel discussion, National Religious Broadcasters meeting, Anaheim, February 06, 2000. "Why Darwin Matters". Book by Michael Shermer, 2006.

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• The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.

  William Lane Craig

  Mere, Warrants

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

  Fanny Burney

  Character, Wish, Behaviour

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney", vol. 1, p. 8, 1768.

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• Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Creative

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