Possible Quotes
8111 Possible quotes by 4730 unique authors
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Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
— Jan Schakowsky
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
— Judith Butler
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Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over…
— Luce Irigaray
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So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel.…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
— Jack Kornfield
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear,…
— Byron Katie
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The…
— Federico Fellini
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In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
— Thomas Merton
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Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
— Michael Pollan
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The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same…
— Rudolf Steiner
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The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
— Frances Perkins
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As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world…
— Mircea Eliade
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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.
— Elon Musk
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Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group…
— Richard Branson
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I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active…
— Tony Abbott
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The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with…
— Warren E. Burger
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
— Marcus Buckingham
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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live…
— Brian Tracy
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I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic…
— Roger Staubach
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Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
— Peter Elbow
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Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which…
— Learned Hand
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new…
— August Strindberg
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I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning…
— Jacques Rivette
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