Possible Quotes
8111 Possible quotes by 4730 unique authors
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The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more…
— Martina Navratilova
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
— Edwidge Danticat
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To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.
— Francois Quesnay
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several…
— Sun Tzu
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For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the…
— Tim Ferriss
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The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning…
— Eugene Delacroix
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To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
— Unknown Author
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and…
— Walker Percy
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the…
— Daniel Berrigan
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If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of…
— David Ben-Gurion
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When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
— Moshe Sharett
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it…
— George Santayana
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As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and…
— Freeman Dyson
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Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
— Albert J. Nock
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You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge. Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and…
— Dominic O'Brien
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Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible…
— Ted Chiang
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No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It…
— Mira Sorvino
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I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my…
— Jean Moulin
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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a…
— Yohji Yamamoto
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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to…
— Richard Leakey
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Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already…
— Neville Goddard
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