"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory"
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"The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over."
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"I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you"
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"a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )"
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"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living."
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"A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible."
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"I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous."
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"If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further."
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"I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible."
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"As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious."
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"It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them."
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"It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence."
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"My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist."
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"I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it."
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"I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on."
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"An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While."
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"Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs."
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"To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is."
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"Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million."
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"It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils."
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