"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."

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Source : Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

Robert Musil

#Reality Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
“When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.”
“Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.”

Source : "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.
“Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it.”
“I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.”
“You don't want to be stopped. But it happens to everybody, like if you bump into an old friend or something. Luckily with an old friend, you can be like, "I'm having a diarrhea attack. Can I call you later?" And you can't really do that with a stranger.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.”
“When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.8, Palgrave Macmillan

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