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I have no doubt that there are brilliant 3D movies lurking in potentia out there in the breasts of filmmakers, yearning to burst free.
Boing Boing 2009
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After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)
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After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)
unbillable hours: 2006
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After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)
Interesting Times 2006
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If you think you or a loved one may be a co-dependent librarian or librarian in potentia, call 1-800-LIB-LICK today!
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Perhaps you are a librarian, actual or in potentia.
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On the one hand there is potentia, which is the power that is essential to the individual (Barbone and Rice 2000, 17).
Spinoza's Political Philosophy Steinberg, Justin 2008
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This is termed potentia logica, which is no more but a negation of any contradiction to existence; not potentia physica, which includes a disposition unto actual existence.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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"Bureaucratic processes have also been identified as a potentia hinderance to the growth and development of the corridor.
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No system expresses all possible qualities - there are always qualities in-potentia, submerged in nature, which are not expressed by the system.
Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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