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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which… — Thomas Hardy
It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities.… — Bob Black
Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million — Mark Twain
Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,… — Sigmund Freud
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. — Roger Starr
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are… — Emile Capouya
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as… — Albert Einstein
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves — James Madison
It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight. — Unknown Author
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology — John Tudor
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of… — Thomas Merton
The Absolute Truth is only one for the infinity of possible truths that lie. — Sorin Cerin
Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by… — Caspar Weinberger
I am happy where I am, I have a long way to travel for Barcelona and for Brazil. I want to win the Spanish title… — Ronaldo
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. — Geoffrey Bocca
You're working with such limited space, it's not really possible. — Paul Wall
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability… — Unknown Author
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all… — Adlai E. Stevenson
This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who… — Bhagavad Gita

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