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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. – Doug Larson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody. – George Washington	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. – Matthew Arnold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. – Jan Ashford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Saint Francis of Assisi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – Saint Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. – Simone de Beauvoir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were. – John Berger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary McLeod Bethune	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. – Jim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. – Max Born	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Dorthea Bragg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. – Henry Peter Brougham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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