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What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. ↗

— Dorothee Solle

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

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Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different when they’re gone. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

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Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. ↗

— Peter Sotos

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