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Possibility Quotes
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
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"Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair."
51
"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."
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"To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used."
31
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
29
"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
27
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."
25
"The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be."
23
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
22
"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."
21
"When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there."
21
"Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility."
21
"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."
20
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."
20
"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
20
"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."
20
"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."
20
"The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that."
19
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
19
"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."
19
"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."
18
"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."
18
"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
18
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
18
"It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years."
18
"So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known."
18
"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."
18
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
18
"One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb."
18
"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."
18
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
18
"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."
18
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
18
"Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated."
17
"It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian."
16
"If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks."
16
"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."
16
"There is always a way out, as there is a way in."
16
"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
15
"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer."
15
"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."
15
"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature."
15
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
15
"I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally."
15
"Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility."
14
"The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority."
14
"It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities."
14
"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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