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"Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one."
"The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."
"My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything."
"It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ."
"Impossible is nothing."
"Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare."
"Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect."
"It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered."
"It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible."
"It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden."
"Nothing is impossible in the United States."
"When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face."
"I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather."
"The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune."
"When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all."
"It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women."
"I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry."
"The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed."
"To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion."
