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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Spiritual, Mistake, Taken

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People want incongruous, impossible things.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Want, Impossible

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

  Steven Pinker

  Queens, Believe, Glasses

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.133, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love itself, which is built on this all-embracing reverence. And since this is so in truth, it is also an impossible thing that love, once awakened and built up in truthfulness, can ever weaken again and become cold, or could transform into hate or be annihilated.

  Billy Meier

  Hate, Fundamentals, Elements

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• Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her this grace, this grace that all, all, all people would do good and that we would encounter one another in this work, which is a work of creation, like the creation of the Father. A work of the family, because we are all children of God, all of us, all of us! And God loves us, all of us! May Santa Rita grant us this grace, which seems almost impossible. Amen.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, People

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• I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Apollo, Needs, World

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