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""It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given."
"It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united."
"It’s impossible for you to lose me…because you never had me."
"Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling."
"There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous."
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions."
"I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible."
"I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too."
"I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region."
"The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world."
"It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare."
"Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist."
"It is impossible to exist without passion"
"If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible."
"It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love."
"It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it."
"Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means."
"Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible."
"There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable."
"Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?"
