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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof."

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Neil Jordan Director
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"I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked."

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode."

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Frances Wright Abolitionist, Social Reformer
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"... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it."

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"We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness."

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