"He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible."
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"It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride."
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"I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that convert any democratic forms into what have been called sometimes "hierarchical democracies," like ours, in which some have vastly greater influence over public policy than others. Spelling all of this out is a complex matter that raises many issue and problems that are impossible to address here."
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"Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether."
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"We ought not to desire the impossible."
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"Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published."
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"Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible."
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"How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!"
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"He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist."
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"I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me."
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"I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible."
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"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this."
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"We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible."
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"He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself."
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"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour."
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"If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it."
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"Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us."
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"It is impossible to be both selfish and happy."
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