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• There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Intellectual, Merit, Odyssey

  "The Immortal" (1968) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Self, Hands

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Promise, Income

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• Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Monday, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

  Carroll Eugene Simcox

  Thinking, Religion, Asking

  Carroll Eugene Simcox (1985). “Prayer: The Divine Dialog”, Intervarsity Pr

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• When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, People, Complaining

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• Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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• I try to take care
  and be gentle to them.
  Words and eggs must be handled with care.
  Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

  Anne Sexton

  Eggs, Broken, Trying

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

  Kristin Cashore

  Horse, People, Want

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.221, Penguin

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• We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Miracle, Want

  Paul Auster (2009). “The Book of Illusions: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Hands, Wish

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Cat, Animal

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• Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!

  Steven Moffat

  Thinking, Doors, Monsters

  "Doctor Who: Children in Need Special". TV Series, November 18, 2005.

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• The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

  Robert Boyle

  Nature, Science, Men

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• It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

  George Saunders

  Desire, Doe, Rising

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.36, Random House

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• People want incongruous, impossible things.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Want, Impossible

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.221, Penguin

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• The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

  Steven Moffat

  Years, Miracle, Nine

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• There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Hysteria, Twenties

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• Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. Most Americans live their lives that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often it's something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things get done every day that are only made possible by the little, reasonable compromises.

  Jon Stewart

  Done, Want, Littles

  Closing speech at "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear", October 30, 2010.

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• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

  Agatha Christie

  Breakfast, Six, Unbelievable

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• If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.

  Walt Disney

  Breakfast, Six, Havens

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• You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  White, House, Goldfish

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

  Craig L. Rice

  Happens, Improbable, Things Happen

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• The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Jesus, Humanity, Want

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