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• ...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

  Jim Craig

  Business, Organization, Needs

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• Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

  Reginald Shepherd

  Poetry Is

  Reginald Shepherd (2007). “Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry”

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• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Journey, Cities, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

  Marton Csokas

  Believe, Way, Achieve

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• Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

  James Franco

  Sometimes, Painful, Oneself

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Trying, Stop Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

  Sean Connery

  Improbable, Nothing Is Impossible

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• I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Stupid, Believe, Fall

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• Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Race, Objectivity

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• Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mistake, Progress, Ability

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• There’s a window of opportunity with every girl and once that passes it becomes impossible to bang.

  Roosh V

  Girl, Opportunity, Bangs

  "30 Bangs: The Shaping Of One Man's Game From Patient Mouse To Rabid Wolf". Book by Roosh V, March 7, 2012.

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• That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.

  Camilla Gibb

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Camilla Gibb (2010). “Mouthing The Words”, p.235, Random House

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• I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Mind, Shots

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Clothes, Findings, South

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• The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.

  James Madison

  Real, Reflection, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.173, Cambridge University Press

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• As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Army, Long, Unity

  "Class Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' speech in South Chicago (November 24, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

  Charles Babbage

  Eye, Effort, Mind

  Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”

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• It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

  Thom Yorke

  Sun, Being Me, Horror

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• It is impossible to have progress without conscience

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Progress, Conscience

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• You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political.

  Vaclav Havel

  Dream, Independent, People

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• It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

  Michael Moorcock

  Opinion, Theory, Snobbish

  "Fantastic Metropolis", Christmas Editorial, December 9, 2001.

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• With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

  Harlan Ellison

  Crazy, Data, Gossip

  interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.

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• If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Play, Program, Ifs

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• Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

  George Foreman

  Appreciation, People, Respecting Others

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Reflection

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