Possibility Quotes - Page 35

• I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Giving, Environment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Confused, Believe, Men

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, ("Two Concepts of Liberty"), 2002.

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• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Struggle, Imagination, Survival

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• I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

  H. G. Wells

  Expectations, Limits, Dawn

  "Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"".

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• Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Men, Encounters, God Love

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.61, Ignatius Press

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• It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Too Much, Humans

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• Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Giving Up, Integrity, Believe

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• NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.

  Mike Lee

  Nyc, Inspire, Endless Possibilities

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• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, Adventure

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• When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

  Chris Martin

  Light, Agreement, Feelings

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• Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways.

  Raf Simons

  Attitude, Giving, Different

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• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Opening Up, Collaboration, Opening

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• If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.

  Diriye Osman

  Promise, Trying, Dresses

  "Is Dislocation a Permanent State?" by Diriye Osman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

  M. H. Abrams

  People, Enjoy Life, Literature

  "Built to Last". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.

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• What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

  Joe Rogan

  Interesting, Doubt, Body

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• Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Existence, Acquire, New Possibilities

  "Slowness". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

  John C. Parkin

  Beautiful, Drawing, Pages

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• I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

  Gore Verbinski

  Ironic, Overcoming, Stories

  "Gore Verbinski On Cancellation Of North Korea-Based Steve Carell Film" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. December 17, 2014.

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• In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you always. No cell phone required. No language required to communicate. All is there within you. Other parties have to end, but this one has the possibility of going on and on, for the rest of your life.

  Prem Rawat

  Party, Heart, Phones

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• I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

  Cesar Millan

  Ideas, Choices, Mind

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• Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

  Katherine Dunn

  Athlete, Training, Female

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Fighting, Artist, Issues

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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