#impossible

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#how #impossible #improbable #matter #must

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. ↗

— William Law

#another #hearts #impossible #live #lives

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#anything #cameras #cooking #feel #front

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#contingent #fact #impossible #kinds #necessary

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#furthermore #impossible #leads #revolution #revolutionary

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#governed #impossible #laws #less #more

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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