The
moment when you first wake up in the morning is the
most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how
weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty
that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely
anything may happen. And the fact that it practically
always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is
always there.
-- Monica Baldwin
Now
is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities
are greater.
-- Bill Blackman
Without
peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.
-- Jean Borysenko
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Democracy
is an objective. Democratization is a process.
Democratization serves the cause of peace because
it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive
change without force.
-- Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
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"...utopia
is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints
for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends
is about making us think about possible worlds.
It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our
contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds
to the possibilities of the human condition."
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Democracy
is not just a question of having a vote. It consists
of strengthening each citizen’s possibility and
capacity to participate in the deliberations involved
in life in society.
-- Fernando Cardoso
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You
and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.
In every moment of our existence, we are in that
field of all possibilities where we have access
to an infinity of choices.
-- Deepak Chopra
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"Entrepreneurs
have a mind-set that sees the possibilities rather than
the problems created by change."
-- J Gregory Dees
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The possibility of catastrophic climate change
is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels
of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all
move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to
show this administration that the true majority
of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment
and won't back down.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
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In
the application of the method of non-violence,
one must believe in the possibility of every person,
however depraved, being reformed under humane
and skilled treatment.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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Every
daring attempt to make a great change in existing
conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities
for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
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"Nothing
is impossible,
the word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
--
Audrey Hepburn
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We
are at the very point in time when a 400-year old
age is dying and another is struggling to be born
- a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions
enormously greater than the world has ever experienced.
Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality,
liberty, community and ethics such as the world has
never know, and a harmony with nature, with one another,
and with the divine intelligence such as the world
has never dreamed.
-- Dee Ward Hock, founder of Visa
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung
into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
--
Jean
Houston
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"Forgiveness
is an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine
a better future, one that is based on the blessed possibility
that your hurt will not be the final word on the matter.
It challenges you to give up your destructive thoughts
about the situation and to believe in the possibility
of a better future. It builds confidence that you can
survive the pain and grow from it."
-- Larry James
Creativity
is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.
You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone
else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and
pieces into an enticing new possibility."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The
belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war
is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making
humanity really human.
-- Ellen Key
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I
do believe there is enormous possibility to
change this world.
-- Nicole Kidman
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Freedom
is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself
the alternatives of choice.
Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of
choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument,
a thing.
-- Archibald MacLeish
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If
you associate enough with older people who do
enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in
any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity
and of the possibility for a full life.
-- Margaret Mead
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“As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all
earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly
impoverishes the biosphere and human culture,
our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.”
~ Stephanie Mills
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"Life
is full of multidimensional possibilities. We
are evolutional beings whose future has many possible
outcomes. Use your imagination to find that positive
potential future that awaits you."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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"Life
is full of multidimensional possibilities. We
are evolutional beings whose future has many possible
outcomes. Use your imagination to find that positive
potential future that awaits you."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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My
parents shared not only an improbable love, they
shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of
this nation.
-- Barack Obama
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"Forgiveness
offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace
of mind --
the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace
with others --
the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships
in the future."
-- Kenneth I. Pargament & Mark S. Rye
"Become
a possibilitarian.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see possibilities
-- always see them, for they're always there."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Love
is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement.
Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities
in us.
-- Mary Caroline Richards
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite
world is an impossibility.
~
E. F. Schumacher
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"the
function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize
the pattern of production... by exploiting an invention
or, more generally, an untried technological possibility
for producing a new commodity or producing an old one
in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of
materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing
an industry and so on."
-- Joseph Schumpeter
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In
the hearts of people today there is a deep longing
for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly
dominant, it becomes an inner experience with
unlimited possibilities. Only when this really
happens-- when the spirit of peace awakens and
takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity
be saved from perishing.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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Without
leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement
of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form
of planning."
-- Gloria Steinem
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If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be
solved and if we are to promote genuine justice
and thus bring real peace to the planet—and with
it the possibility of improving lives on every
level, not just economically, socially, and politically,
but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually—then,
just on a practical level, we need to have all
of the religions working together."
~ Brother Wayne
Teasdale
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The situation of the world around us can be painted
in a picture of the darkest possible colours.
On one hand, the arms race absorbs for deadly
purposes 40 million dollars every 24 hours. On
the other hand, immeasurable poverty affects the
lives of three-quarters of the men, women and
children in the world around us. The efforts for
disarmament must therefore be an inextricable
part of the efforts to solve the common problems
of our time, problems which ultimately involve
our very survival, the possibility to continue
the human experiment."
--
Inga
Thorsson
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Never
consider the possibility of failure; as long as you
persist, you will be successful.
-- Brian Tracy
Dreams
are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and
new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dr. Dale Turner
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"...civil
society has not lost the possibility to influence
the government and force them to change their
policy. That is why we believe in your voice and
your help." -- Lida
Yusupova
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To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
romantic. It is based on the fact that human history
is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What
we choose to emphasize in this complex history
will determine our lives. If we see only the worst,
it destroys our capacity to do something. If we
remember those times and places -- and there are
so many -- where people have behaved magnificently,
this gives us the energy to act, and at least
the possibility of sending this spinning top of
a world in a different direction. And if we do
act, in however small a way, we don't have to
wait for some grand utopian future. The future
is an infinite succession of presents, and to
live now as we think human beings should live,
in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself
a marvelous victory.
-- Howard
Zinn
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