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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price."

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian
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"Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered. When the historian or biographer takes over, history is no longer exactly what happened, because there has been a process of selection going on; it's impossible to write about anyone, any event, in any period of time, without in some way imposing, even unconsciously, your own standards, your own values."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds."

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves."

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