#impossible

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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