Rita Dove Quotes
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
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Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
