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• It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Equality, Men

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• People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Thinking, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Long, Evil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Keys, Easy

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.157, Penguin

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• Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

  Antonin Artaud

  Eye, Theatre, Battle

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Self, Long

  "Cultural Criticism and Society". Essay by Theodor Adorno (1949), reprinted in his book "Prisms", 1967.

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• Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

  Will Steger

  Dog, Travel, Honesty

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• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

  Warren E. Burger

  Justice, Guilt, Criminals

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• Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

  Howard Hughes

  Ideas, Quiet, Fantasy

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• 90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

  Hideo Kojima

  Technology, Design, Facts

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• As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Evil, Censorship, Ends

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.152

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• Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Happy, Winning, Organization

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• Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

  Adolf Galland

  Impossible Things, Oil, Smell

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• We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

  Ellen Langer

  Encouragement, Psychology, Growth

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Women, Recoil

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

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• They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

  William Westmoreland

  Women, Believe, Impossible Things

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• Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Community, Hatred, Brotherhood

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

  Georges Simenon

  Communication, Two, People

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

  Li Ka-shing

  Believe, Fate, People

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• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Children, Distance, Forever

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• It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

  Edward Bernays

  Attitude, Men, Sometimes

  Edward L. Bernays (1965). “Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel”

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• I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Skin Color, White, Black

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• There are days we live
  as if death were nowhere
  in the background; from joy
  to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
  from blossom to blossom to
  impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

  Li-Young Lee

  Sweet, Wings, Joy

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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