"Be realistic: always wish the impossible."
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"Be realistic: Go for the impossible!"
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"Working with people is difficult, but not impossible."
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"The wrong words are impossible when there are no words."
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"It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value."
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"I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical."
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"And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
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"We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though."
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"If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?"
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"The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down."
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"When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will."
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"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that."
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"Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do."
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"There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form."
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"Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail."
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"I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy."
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"I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself."
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"This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity."
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"Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible."
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"The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity"
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