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"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer."
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"We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves."

"The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past."

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."

"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."

"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."

"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."

"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."

"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen."
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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."

"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer."
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