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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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• The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

  Len Deighton

  Watches, Saboteurs, Socialism

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral In Berlin”

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• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Anomalies, Way

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

  Don DeLillo

  Barns, White Noise

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

  Epicurus

  Men, Able, He Man

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Important, Matter

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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Like Me

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• I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

  Barbara Hambly

  Fields, Making Money, Break

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• Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

  Tony Blair

  Art, Giving, May

  "Sober speech from a man still yearning for power" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2007.

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• Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Giving Up, Commitment

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• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

  Debi Thomas

  Dream, Stupid, Goal

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• You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Optimistic, Boys

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• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.118, Orient Paperbacks

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• Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Dad, Father, Phones

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

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• Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Sometimes, Internet

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 29, 2012

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  The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

  Billie Holiday

  Motivational, Littles, Difficult

  Song: Crazy He Calls Me

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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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• Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Cheer, Crowds, Want

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• It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

  Trudi Canavan

  Powerful, Imagine, Slave

  Trudi Canavan (2010). “The High Lord: Book 3 of the Black Magician”, p.111, Hachette UK

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