"Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate."
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"It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful."
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"Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad."
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"In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing."
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"[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants."
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"No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made."
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"How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!""
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"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."
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"And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass."
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"Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible."
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"Only nothing is impossible."
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"It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill"
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"Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions."
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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
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"Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!"
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"A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation."
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"Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion."
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"It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself."
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"You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible."
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"The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred"
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