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• The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

  Robert Moss

  Spiritual, Struggle, Destiny

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.110, New World Library

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• What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.

  Amit Goswami

  Thinking, Class, People

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• Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Dream, Adventure, Mind

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• War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Smart, Mean

  "Untold Truths About the American Revolution" by Howard Zinn, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 20, 2009.

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• Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.

  Adyashanti

  Teaching, Meditation, Realization

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• When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

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• Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Space, Creative

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle.

  George W. Merck

  War, Study, Logical

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• The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Machines

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 18, 2013

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• Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Design, Life Worth Living

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• We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Moments, Pregnant

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• Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

  Rollo May

  Drug, Vivid, Matter

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Long, Once In A Lifetime

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Two

  Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

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• I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

  W. Edwards Deming

  Responsibility, Risk, Special

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• With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Mistake, Chess

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• Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

  Paul Kagame

  Inspiring, Technology, Keys

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• A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

  Erna Solberg

  Inspiring, Mother, Issues

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• I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Football, League, Principles

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• To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

  Stephen Russell

  Honesty, Believe, Simple

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• Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Drama, Men, Hands

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• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Bob Schaffer

  Loyalty, Military, Division

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Creating, Growth, Movement

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• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Data, Space

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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