“ Act as though everything you do, rightly or wrongly, accurately or carelessly, may tip the scale of the bigger things of tomorrow for all of us, as indeed every act, potentially, can. ”
- L.G. Eliot- Copy
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“ Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him to decide which he wants to be. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
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“ When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. ”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner- Copy
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“ How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. ”
- Robert J. Sawyer- Copy
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“ Think "impossible" and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words "It's possible," and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest… ”
- Greg Anderson- Copy
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“ I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
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