Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
1990s and later
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
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“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
Rebecca Solnit book The Faraway Nearby
Source: The Faraway Nearby
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Kenneth Boulding (1957) Segments of the economy, 1956, a symposium: the Fifth Economics-in-Action Program sponsored jointly by Republic Steel Corporation and Case Institute of Technology
1950s
“Many things are possible. Few things are certain.”
Harry Turtledove (1949) American novelist, short story author, essayist, historian
Interview in Cybling (February 2001) http://www.cybling.com/artists/harrye.html
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.
La monadologie (53 & 54).
The Monadology (1714)
“It is possible to tell things by a handshake.”
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Letter to Gary Hanauser (18 September 1979), as quoted in All the Best, George Bush : My Life in Letters and Other Writings (2000), p. 282
Context: It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it.: The clammy or diffident handshake — fairly or unfairly — get me off to a bad start with a person.
