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When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must… — Sheena Iyengar
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do. — Melody Beattie
Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may… — Wallace D. Wattles
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars… — Morgan Freeman
No great achievement is possible without persistent work. — Bertrand Russell
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is… — Alex Steffen
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall
It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not… — Jeffrey Sachs
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To… — Karl Pearson
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by… — Eric Liu
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll. — David Bowie
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… — Cesar Chavez

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