#possibility

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

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Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

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Impossibility is a dictionary word. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. ↗

— Bret Harte

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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

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My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

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