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• Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

  Gherman Titov

  Believe, Angel, Men

  "Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov" by Christine Spillson, therumpus.net. August 3, 2017.

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• I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

  Gherman Titov

  Believe, Men, Atheism

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• So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Silence, Meditation

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• Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Perfection, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Curious

  "Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Simple, Different

  Benjamin Graham, New York Institute of Finance (1947). “Current problems in security analysis”

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• A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Real, Years

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• It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Kingdoms, Action, Bigs

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2008). “A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

  Alan Shearer

  Newcastle, Bigs, Managers

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• I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

  Tim Hetherington

  Ideas, People, Conceit

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• The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Children, Book, Mind

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• I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Intuition, Important

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• A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Years, Effort

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

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• I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Children, School, Thinking

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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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• I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Discipline, World

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• Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Oxygen, Thrive

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• We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

  Larry Brooks

  Mind, Needs, Behavior

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• In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

  Adam Braun

  Two, Light, Path

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Heaven, Trials, Bleeding

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• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  Lara St. John

  Play, Voice, Trying

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• The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

  Robin Skynner

  People, Improvement, Willing

  John Cleese, Robin Skynner (2011). “Life And How To Survive It”, p.61, Random House

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