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  • Booker T. Washington I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Golda Meir I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry Ford I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Isaac Asimov I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • J. G. Ballard I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • James R. Cook I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Mao Tse-Tung I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Angela Davis I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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