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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher
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"Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible."

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Nat King Cole Singer, Pianist
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"I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father."

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Pliny the Elder Naturalist, Author
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"Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"

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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
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"There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false."

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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."

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