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«Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.»
Author: Cherie Carter-Scott
| Keywords:
ordinary people, probable, visualize, visualized, visualizes, visualizing
«A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| Keywords:
give rise, independently, probable, probable cause, propinquity, suspected
«It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.»
Author: William Godwin
| Keywords:
eminent, inspire, juvenile, juveniles, probable, regulated, sufficiently
«If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
another, Another World, an explanation, desire, discover, experience, explanation, in this, In this World, made, myself, probable, satisfy, within
«Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aspire, felt, genuinely, human beings, probable, sainthood, saints, temptation
«I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Culture,
Theater
| Keywords:
inward, probable, theater, village
«It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent»
«I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
connected, connecting, directly, duty, In Me, irreverent, probable, reveal, supposed
«A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Chance
| Keywords:
eventually, fought, inevitable, probable, regarded
«I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Almighty, attribute, contest, interference, My Country, probable, reflect, supernatural, supernatural being, the Almighty, tremble
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