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• War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

  Errol Morris

  War, Fate, Impossible Things

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• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Ecology, Unnatural

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “Dramatic works”, p.462

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• To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

  Jeremy Collier

  Believe, Imagination, Way

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.30

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• Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

  Debby Ryan

  Able, Ifs, Capable

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• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

  Daniel Berrigan

  Inability, Favors, May

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Taken, Passion

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• It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Air, People, Perfect

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• The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.169, SUNY Press

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• So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.

  Kathryn Budig

  Unique, Individuality, Special

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• It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Natural

  Ezekiel Hopkins (1809). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins...now First Collected”, p.410

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• Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Boundaries, Abstract, Ends

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• Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Believe, Men, Fire

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• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  Alex Kozinski

  Creativity, Technology, Fire

  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993), March 18, 1993.

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• Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to see him. And, being a songwriter, you have to have experiences and do things. You can't just go on tour all the time, otherwise you get nothing to write about. It's finally at a point where the balance is perfectly right.

  Neko Case

  Dog, Writing, Balance

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• Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

  Ita Buttrose

  Wisdom, Loser, Winner

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• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

  Mikhail Tal

  Trying, Technique, Chess

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• Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, World, Accepting

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• Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

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• There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy.
  The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

  Louis Kentner

  Learning, Pieces, Easy

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Possible And Impossible

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

  Richard DeVos

  Running, Winning, Possible And Impossible

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• Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Littles, Contempt

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• In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

  George Stephenson

  Competition, Economics, Combination

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