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  • Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. -- Lou Holtz
  • I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. -- Bobby Darin
  • Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. -- Warren Farrell
  • Virtually everything is dangerous if you are afraid. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail. -- Rhonda Abrams
  • Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. -- Don DeLillo
  • Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall. -- William A. Dembski
  • Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives -- Dennis Prager
  • Virtually every decision Hillary Clinton has made has been a loser. -- Donald Trump
  • Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings. -- James Cook
  • Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. -- Idries Shah
  • Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done. -- Jock Sturges
  • Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight. -- Denis Waitley
  • Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. -- Mike Schmidt
  • Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. -- George Ayittey
  • Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you. -- Wayne Dyer
  • Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality. -- Dick Armey
  • Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak. -- Jonas Gahr Store
  • Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt. -- Karen Walker
  • Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say. -- Zara Phillips
  • Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way. -- Steve Albini
  • Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight. -- Denis Waitley
  • Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed. -- Idries Shah
  • Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why -- James Arthur Ray
  • Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something. -- David Allen
  • Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features. -- Samantha Power
  • Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. -- Jane Jacobs
  • Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? -- Jack LaLanne
  • Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse. -- Dennis Prager
  • Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences. -- Vint Cerf
  • Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? -- Seth Shostak
  • Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified. -- Mike Svob
  • Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society. -- Hodding Carter III
  • Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about. -- Tom Scholz
  • After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.' -- Eugene Fama
  • Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them. -- Ellen Langer
  • Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. -- Carl Sagan
  • Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. -- Michael Moore
  • Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. -- Charles Kettering
  • Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause. -- Lee Strobel
  • Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations. -- Stan Lee
  • Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. -- Janine Benyus
  • Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. -- Warren Farrell
  • Virtually everyone with a high-paying job in Washington, New York and Los Angeles demanded that voters not support Donald Trump for president but they did it anyway but we never saw it coming. Why is that? -- Tucker Carlson
  • When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them. -- Bernie Sanders
  • What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade -- Alfie Kohn
  • Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • Virtually every community in the country has legislation regulating door-to-door trade, yet telemarketers have run unchecked for years. The industry in general uses all sorts of slimy tricks to make sure you never make it to the do-not-call list. -- Julie Ann Dawson
  • Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless. -- Donald Hall
  • Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions. -- Tom Robbins
  • In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects. -- Derek Bok
  • We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. -- Amartya Sen
  • In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. -- William Bernbach
  • By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
  • It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. -- Bobby Scott
  • To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it. -- Mark Caine
  • If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. -- Andrew Weil
  • OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. -- James Nasmyth
  • A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. -- John P. Kotter
  • The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. -- Jacques Ellul
  • Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. -- Warren Buffett
  • Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will. -- Martha Beck
  • If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. -- William Lyon Phelps
  • Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. -- Brian Tracy
  • Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. -- Joel Salatin
  • The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. -- Robert Pattinson
  • The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. -- Steve Jobs
  • Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. -- Camille Paglia
  • The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park. -- Wil S. Hylton
  • I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. -- Marcus Brigstocke
  • Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill. -- Margaret Chan
  • One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things. -- Tim Daly
  • I work virtually every waking hour. -- Alvin Toffler
  • His credibility is zilch, virtually nil. -- Don King
  • Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. -- Tony Visconti
  • I'm a person with virtually no feelings. -- Deborah Eisenberg
  • Calvin was virtually the founder of America. -- Leopold Von Ranke
  • The music industry had virtually blacklisted me. -- Irene Cara
  • [Apple] make nothing in the United States, virtually. -- Donald Trump
  • Choice impacts virtually every element of our life. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget. -- Mitt Romney
  • I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit. -- Ted Turner
  • Plot and character are virtually the same thing. -- Daniel Keys Moran
  • Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. -- Patrick Ewing
  • People will use their religion to justify virtually anything. -- Desmond Tutu
  • However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared. -- Andrzej Wajda
  • In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. -- William Bernbach
  • I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies. -- Milton Glaser
  • Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
  • In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules. -- Bernard Madoff
  • The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation. -- Brian Tracy
  • Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think. -- David Mumford
  • Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality. -- Thomas Hoving
  • Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs. -- Roger Caras
  • The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. -- Peter DeFazio
  • Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker. -- Sergio Ramos
  • Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. -- Ron Fournier
  • In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ... -- Amy Vanderbilt
  • Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. -- Smiley Blanton
  • You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true. -- Elizabeth Hurley
  • I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything. -- Donald Trump
  • A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. -- Livy
  • I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
  • It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. -- John Knowles
  • It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. -- Konrad Zuse
  • I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight -- Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable. -- Donella Meadows
  • It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. -- Richard Leakey
  • I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers. -- Esther Rolle
  • It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. -- Lucy Powell
  • States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. -- John Kitzhaber
  • I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere, -- Joni Ernst
  • I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American. -- Newt Gingrich
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