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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program...
Poul Anderson
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least.
Robert Browning
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
J. L. Austin
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
John Dos Passos
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.
William Stanley Jevons
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
Rutherford B. Hayes
To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
Raymond Williams
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Douglas Adams
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