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Letter "P" » potentiality
«Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.»
Author: George Gilder
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«The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.»
Author: Harry Levin
| About:
Comedy
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aspect, comedies, comedy, conditions, darkness, laughing, potentiality, protean, responding, the darkness, tragedy, transcended, transcending
«One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
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«The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Creativity,
Innovation
| Keywords:
Creation, creatures, efficacy, forgot, fruitful, magic, potentialities, potentiality, tool, verges
«We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
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«What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
experienced, land, of his own, on land, potentiality, sea, unique
«The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictions, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, potentiality
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