"Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse."
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"Perfection is an impossible destination"
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"Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do."
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"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
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"It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense."
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"I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me."
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"It is impossible to do anything for anyone."
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"You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale."
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"It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it."
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"Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible."
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"If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail."
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"The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams."
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"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
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"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American"
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"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."
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"An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents."
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"The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible."
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"The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard."
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"I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up."
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"Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting."
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