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Letter "P" » possibility
«I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.»
Author: Clara Barton
(Nurse)
| Keywords:
defied, defy, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, for anything, go for, irritate, irritated, irritates, I go, possibility, precedent
«In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.»
«Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility»
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
fresh, New Gods, possibility, radiant
«If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.»
Author: Robert H. Schuller
(Author, Entrepreneur, Reformed Church Minister)
| Keywords:
exists, possibility, There exists, victory
«In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
element, indestructible, in theory, possibility, strive, theory
«Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
breaking, championed, Champions, confines, die hard, dimension, erase, extra, heroes, In America, legends, mould, myths, narrow, not yet, possibility, provide, rat, rat race, The Legend, Weird
«Pleasure disappoints, possibility never»
«Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Victory
| Keywords:
attack, Attack of, defence, invincibility, possibility, under attack, victory
«If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Anatidae, aquatic, aquatic bird, at least, bird, bird of, consider, duck, ducked, ducking, family, family Anatidae, hands, looks, possibility, quack, quacks, The Family
«If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Power,
Wealth,
Wishes
| Keywords:
ardent, disappoints, eye, for anything, passionate, possibility, potential, The Eye, wealth
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