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"Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden."
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"Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so."
"4 Hours, 48 Minutes and 19 Seconds here the point is that everything is possible."
"When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible."
"Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker."
"Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise."
"You can carry around with you a basket full of magical apples; but when people do not recognize magic, they will ask you to go and pick earthly apples and then they will laugh at you when you are unable to pick the apples of the earth; but what they don't know is that you were given hands that are made to pick the magical apples from the ancient trees and what an opportunity they have missed in not asking you for the magic ones! But this is the downfall of mankind, in that they cannot recognize magic even when it is right under their noses! Blessed are the few who can, and who ask for it. Ask me for magic, because that is what I am capable of giving."
"Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded."
"There exist possibilities in every problem."
"Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
"For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty."
"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."
"I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers."
"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
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