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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Return

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• If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

  James Hansen

  Humanity, Wish, Environmental

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• It is a world of startling possibilities.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  World

  Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”

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• The Law of Attraction allows for infinite possibilities, infinite abundance & infinite joy. It knows no order of difficulty.

  Jack Canfield

  Law Of Attraction, Order, Joy

  Jack Canfield, D. D. Watkins (2007). “Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams”, p.10, Health Communications, Inc.

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• As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Chess, Praise

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.

  Barbara Holland

  Life, Children, Airports

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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Stubborn, Chess, Resistance

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Excellence, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.23

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• I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Evil

  "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Fields, Abundance And Prosperity

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• There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Organization

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Average

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  Chris Stringer

  Fossils, Unusual, Modern

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• There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Release, Volume

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Custody, Today

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• The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

  Adrienne Rich

  Important, Culture, Limits

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• There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

  Navi Pillay

  Strong, War, Law

  "U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza". www.reuters.com. July 23, 2014.

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• The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Essence, Opening Up, Opening

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• Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

  Elias Canetti

  Real, Lying, Men

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• We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been off Earth. We have always been on a piece of Earth in space. We survive only as long as we can breathe the air of Earth, drink its waters, and be nourished by its foods. There is no indication that as humans we will ever live anywhere else in the universe. Place, too, is continuously being transformed but only within its own possibilities.

  Thomas Berry

  Reality, Air, Space

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.92, Crown

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• No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

  Howard Gardner

  Fate, Opportunity, Agency

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• Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

  Cory Booker

  Beautiful, Helping Others, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jun 17, 2013

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• Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Fighting

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• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Self, Judging

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.

  Terry Teachout

  Wall, Doors, Light

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