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“The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.”

Men Doe Lines Possibility He Man Becoming Pages Familiar Acquire Paragraph Illustration Encyclopedia

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.”

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Author:F. R. Leavis

“Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.”

“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”

“When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.”

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Author:Steven Zaillian

“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”

Possibility Pages Endless Opening Chapters Verses Endless Possibilities

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.”

Years Enough Running Next Race Possibility Trump Republican Pages Seven Candidates Senate Tickets Committees Next Year Blueprints Confidential

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.”

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Author:Alex Abreu

“Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.”

Ifs Should Trying Artist Effort Possibility Pages Communicate Contact Publication

Author:Domenico Gnoli

“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.”

Wells Sound Possibility Poet Expression Pages Driven Vocal Bards Intentionality

Author:Anne Waldman

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”

World Made Book Dream Past Vision Possibility Reader Shapes Pages Extraordinary

Book:Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)

Source: Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)