"The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."
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"Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you."
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"It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love."
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"We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so."
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"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos."
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"Impossible to see, the future is."
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"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
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"People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad."
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"The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible."
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"And what is impossible to science?"
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"I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with."
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"It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing."
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"A good writer always works at the impossible."
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"It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor."
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"Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning."
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"It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?"
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"Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible."
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"What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation."
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"There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up."
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"Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them."
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