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“Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?”

Believe Matter Facts Asks I Believe Answers Possibility Theater Dare Core Redemption What Matters

Author:Joe Mantello

“So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.”

Mean Facts Asks Taken Possibility Exercise Paper Trials Papers Tryouts

Book:Forms of Talk

Source: Forms of Talk

“The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.”

Doe Facts Asks Possibility Birth Fit Blessing Paid Productions Goods

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.”

Want Mind Believe Asks Accepting Fantasy Possibility Blind Blindness Closed Mind

Author:Charlie Brooker

“If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.”

Way Needs I Can Asks Force Hours Seeing Minutes Possibility Judging Weakness Endure Sheer My Thoughts Judge Me

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.”

“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”

Ifs Wells May Self America Asks Term Possibility Paper Wit Desperate Privacy Autobiography Publicity Outrageous Gimmicks

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.”

World Care Asks Possibility Originals Philosopher Intuition Take Care Meaningfulness

Author:Saul Kripke

“For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.”

World Children Asks Space Growing Possibility Becoming Like Her Predetermined

Author:Maxine Greene

“If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.”

Ifs Thinking May States Asks Possibility Perspective Machines Soldier Critical Policemen Unethical

Author:Jose Padilha

“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.”

Ifs Believe Wells Wanted Asks Space Support Struggle Saws Greater Air Possibility Wind Machines Stronger Speed Conquer Gentleman Aviation Receiving Predictions Adapted Susceptible

Author:Jules Verne