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Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, ...

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabi...

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine ...

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At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but ...

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I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll ...

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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately ...

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Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through ...

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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that wa...

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Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him...

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What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate ...

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But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible la...

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real fut...

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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst b...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in ...

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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for some...

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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communica...

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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are n...

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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all...

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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environm...

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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a ...

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...

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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...

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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most eff...

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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it...

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in t...

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We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...

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Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said...

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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the b...

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition;...

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Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want t...

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Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that...

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Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to...

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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to repro...

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He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as ...

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Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay yo...

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th...

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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him wh...

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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the dist...

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We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my s...

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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it...

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It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone w...

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If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being...

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Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible...

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will ...

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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiousl...

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Love without conversation is impossible.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happ...

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History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as ...

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She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to...

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It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of t...

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But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or gener...

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance...

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It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attac...

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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in fro...

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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appr...

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It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical...

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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It...

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Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

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Russell L. AckoffThe Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the ...

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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...

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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

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