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“BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.”

Mind Heart Ends Hands Spirit Possibility Fit Circles Perceive Firm Innovative Beginnings And Ends

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“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.”

Doe Ends Fiction Possibility Approach Pages Tradition Gratification Brooks Dichotomy Broccoli

Author:F. R. Leavis

“We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?”

Ends Night Water Chance Enemy Possibility Lovers Walking Meetings Metaphor Obvious Bridges Goods Void Traffic Quarrels Casual Walking On Water

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.”

Ends Women Brain Possibility Equal Intelligence Mates Grim

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.”

World Way Giving Ends Stories Possibility Reader Internet Technique Alternatives Narrative Permit Gaming Sideways

Author:Salman Rushdie

“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Thinking Ends Would Be Wish Possibility Discovery Curiosity Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Joyce

Source: Joyce

“Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?”

Ifs Knows May Ideas Real Ends Today Lasts Certain Numbers Possibility Ready Eternity No Idea Sand Call Me Grain Grains Of Sand God's Presence Hourglass

Author:Patrick Madrid

“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.”

Ifs Ends Reason Life Is Culture Term Wealth Successful Possibility Riches Defining Acquisition Snares Mercenary

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.”

Ifs Believe Ends I Believe Existence Novel Possibility Crisis Wave Genre Outcomes Encounters Latter Sci Fi Existential Scenarios Existential Crisis Extraterrestrial 5th Wave

Author:Rick Yancey

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.”

People Ifs Two Ends Reason Together Individual Party Greater Pieces Possibility Musician Combination Filmmaker Working Together Collaboration Choreographers

Author:John Parish

“We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.”

“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”

Doe Ends Chance Possibility Suicide Get Better Prevention

Author:Vic Fuentes

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”

Humans Ends Self Left Sex Sides Possibility Despair Expectations Concern Partners Borders Satisfying Requirements Human Relations Human Relationships Disillusion

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.”

Humans Ends Reality Certain Values Choices Possibility Taste Ultimate Fundamentals Determine Compare Abandon Existential Inclination Psychoanalysis Ontology

Book:Existentialism and Human Emotions

Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.”

Humans Ends Childhood Possibility Tendencies Humankind Infantile Gullible

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.”

People Ifs Mind Ends Sometimes Matter Certain Break Laughing Cry Possibility Strange Heavy Stuck Unusual Things In Life Topics Relaxed Lightness Mind Set

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.”

Two Soul Ends Spiritual Night Suffering Dark Teacher Teaching Possibility Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.”

May Said Soul Ends Whole Moments Body Eye Age Pain Suffering Millions Hell Alive Possibility Smart Ears Extremes Mythology Intense Instant Torment Trembling Duration Fainting Intermission

Author:John Wesley

“The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.”

Ends Possibility Notes

Book:The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

Source: The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.”

World Way Needs Believe War Ends Government Chance Security Possibility Accounts Lifetime Reasonable Japan Allies End Of The World Menace

Author:Winston Churchill

“You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like you've cracked it and it's finished and it's done, because it can always be improved. It can always be changed. There is no right answer, so you can drive yourself crazy with just the expanse of infinite possibilities when it comes to writing.”

Writing Ends Done Answers Morning Crazy Possibility Changed Like You Infinite Finished The End Of The Day Cracked Infinite Possibilities Right Answers Expanse

Author:Dan Mazer

“Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.”

Ends Life Is Possibility Comfort Truth Is Comfortable Zone Comfort Zone Gin

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?”

Trying May Ends Desire Possibility Goes On Why Not

Book:The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!”

Ends Play Home Able Can Do Watches Possibility Television Computer Female Phones Mortals Wrestling Vietnam Shopping Integrating Louvre Mortal Kombat

Author:Jim Carrey

“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.”

“It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.”

Knows World Way Ends Millions Possibility Television Right Now Ocean Unique New World Introducing Cop American Television

Author:Veena Sud

“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?”

Way Ends Moments School Dying Car Possibility Youth Football Paper Unique Finals Seats Routes Workout Stolen Borrowed Muddy Irreplaceable After School Cramming Paddy

Author:William Broyles, Jr.

“The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.”

Humans War Ends Possibility Affair Bombs Atomic Bomb

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.”

Years Book Ends Possibility Promotion

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.”

Love Giving Looks Heart Children Ends Self Life Is Parent Realizing Love Is Brain Possibility Ups & Downs Greatest Gifts Sweet Love Dead Ends Heart And Brain

Author:Doc Childre

“Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.”

“The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.”

“It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God. It was probably towards the end of high school in my senior year when things really started to come together and I realized that I had more potential and that I could do this as a career and that the Olympics were a possibility.”

“I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.”

Ends Hands Today Feet Figures Possibility Painting Flexibility Going To Work

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of progress are real.”

People Thinking Real Ends Pain Life Is Stuff Comedy Possibility Tragedy Irony Fascinating Tragedy And Comedy

Author:Barack Obama

“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.”

World Years Ends Film Talking Possibility Serious Fine Mets Ten Years Ago University Shooting Encounters End Of The World Korea North Korea Cambridge Antarctica Cambridge University

Author:Werner Herzog

“A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.”

People Wells Two Ends Happens Novel Possibility Come Up

Author:Emily Barton

“We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.”

Men Giving Humans Mean Ends Wanted Order Happened Crazy Century Possibility Produce Productions Human Life Consumption 20th Century 19th Century

Author:Erich Fromm

“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.”

People Way Humans Two Different Ends Possibility Behavior Raised Fascinated Human Behavior Different Place

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“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.”

Doe Ends Stories Seems Possibility Tricks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.”

Ifs Way Ends Seems Jobs Fantasy Clear Too Much Possibility College Adventure Accepted Contentment Delusion Abandoned Passive Sweeping Closure Notice Me

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology

“I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

Source: Anthem

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