Possibility Quotes - Page 33

• The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Use, Hussein

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• One day they might. I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do so. But what I am saying is that this is a country that has been brutalised for decades by this appalling regime and that the restoration of that country to its own people, the possibility of their deciding their future... and indeed the way in which they go about thier lives, ultimately, yes, that will be a better place for people in Iraq.

  Geoff Hoon

  Country, Usa, Iraq

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• Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, Skills, People

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• People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Moving, Government, People

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• Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

  Todd Gitlin

  Party, States, Right Now

  "To Protest or Not to Protest?". Debates between Naomi Klein and Todd Gitlin, www.alternet.org. August 27, 2004.

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• MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Molecules, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

  Radhanath Swami

  Blessing, Essence, Appreciate

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• The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  Karl Shapiro

  Real, Race, Hands

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

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• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  Edmund Wilson

  Imagination, Humans, Human Society

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

  Sarah Zettel

  Life, Challenges, Fiction

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• So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Nature, Years, Computer

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• We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

  Peter Farrelly

  Sports, Thinking, Long

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• I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

  Vernor Vinge

  Technology, Natural, Inevitable

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Book by Vernor Vinge, 1993.

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• From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pms, Fertility, Problem

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• For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Playing Games, Years, Long

  "Divining What’s Next for Video Games". Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

  Rita Dove

  Doors, Soul, Library

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• We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Trying, Different

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• Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

  Julie Burchill

  Relationship, Boring, Range

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Impossible, Horrible, Situation

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• You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

  Charles Olson

  Umpires, Exciting, Can Do

  "Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews".

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• Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Equality, Light, Views

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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