"When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite."
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"It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning."
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"The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible."
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"I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible."
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"Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station."
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"It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are."
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"Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built"
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"Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science."
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"If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love."
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"What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible."
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"One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations."
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"This guy is totally unorthodox. Maybe he`s flipping coins or playing three-card Monty to see who he wants to pick. Donald Trump is so unorthodox that I think it`s almost impossible to have any reasonable prediction about who he`s going to pick for the Vice-President."
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