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It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women’s potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

James E. Rogers

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm.

Suze Orman

American author, television personality, motivational speaker, businesswoman, investor

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn’t place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.

Michael K. Powell

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there’s a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that’s all art can be.

Richard Serra

American sculptor (1938-2024)

The position I took at the time was that we hadn’t really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Jeremy Rifkin

American economist

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Allan Bloom

American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930-1992)

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

It’s important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let’s revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

Wynton Marsalis

American jazz musician and educator

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Jamie Zawinski

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

Mary Robinson

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