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"she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves."
"A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities."
"I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose."
"I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong."
"I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century." And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in."
"Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death."
"When you hand good people possibility, they do great things."
"There is possibility in every difficulty."
"In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection."
"I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor."
"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
"Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities."
"I want to represent possibilities."
"But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy. That's how much I wanted Nash to love me."
"Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence."
"Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."
"If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies."
"The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious."
"A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities."
"Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities."
