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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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"When something looks impossible, don't give up without testing its impossibility."

"This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility."

"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."

"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."

"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."

"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."

"There is always a way out, as there is a way in."

"These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich."

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."
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"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."

"Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence."

"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"

"Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God'shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled."
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