Impossibility Quotes - Page 17

• In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

  Benjamin Graham

  Emotional, Forever, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Cowardice, Possession

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.92, A&C Black

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• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Long, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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• If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Done, Realizing, Construction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

  Bill Bonner

  Recovery, Forget

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• Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

  S. D Gordon

  Doubt, Blind, Deaf

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• I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.

  Buju Banton

  Sincerity, Genuine, I'm Only Human

  Song: I Wanna Be Loved, Album: 'Til Shiloh, 1995

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• It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

  Albert Camus

  Unity, World, Principles

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• At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.

  Beat Streuli

  Individuality, Skins, World

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• Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Believe, Exercise

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• Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

  John Quincy Adams

  Moving, Men, Fire

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Evil, Together, Elements

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• An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Personality, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.445, Library of Alexandria

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• One way of looking at Impossibility Theorem is that we proposed some criteria for what a good system should be: what is it you want from a voting system, and impose some conditions. And then ask: can you have a voting system that guarantees that?

  Kenneth Arrow

  Guarantees That, Voting, Want

  Source: electology.org

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• In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one. So then we have essentially a ranking. It's a list saying this is my first choice. This is my second choice. Each voter, in principle, could be asked to give that entire piece of information. In the ordinary Plurality Voting, say as used in electing Congressmen, we generally only ask for the first choice. But, in principle, we could ask for more choices.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Two, Giving, Voting

  Source: electology.org

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• There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I was assuming people vote sincerely. The trouble with methods where you have three or four classes, I think if people vote sincerely they may well be very satisfactory. The problem is the incentive to misrepresent your vote may be high.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Class, People

  Source: electology.org

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