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“I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.”

Has Beens Values Given Taken Greater Possibility Giving Up Optimistic Not Giving Up

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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

“Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and maybe even experimental grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.”

“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”

Giving Years Mind Firsts Has Beens Problem Today Form Sides Steps Struggle Taken Possibility Findings Brotherhood First Steps Humankind Finest Strife Torment Theoretical

Author:Mikhail Kalinin

“I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.”

Persons Book Reading Taken Possibility Becoming Thoughtful Book Reading Vitamins Narcissist

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.”

Seems Taken Possibility Opening Away From You Great Freedom

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.”

Principles Taken Possibility Despair Endeavor Improving Agnostic Agnosticism Icicles

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.”

Want Has Beens Made Country Facts Seems Taken Risk Possibility Claims Regard Flight Our Country Prestige Great Risk

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.”

Knows Has Beens Law Interesting Taken Possibility Limits Photographer Photograph Surprising Probability

Author:Roland Barthes