We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure towards success.
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Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd, Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible!
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one?s sister and a stranger in a
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Failure is impossible.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of selfconceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well defined meaning.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilate
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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement.. Let me go upstairs and check.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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