"They did not know it was impossible so they did it"
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"All that is impossible remains to be accomplished."
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"In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable."
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"One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain."
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"Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network."
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"In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another."
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"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer."
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"Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible."
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"To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process."
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"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
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"Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it."
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"Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet ."
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"How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization."
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"Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible."
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"The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all."
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"Whoso loves, believes in the impossible"
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"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
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"Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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