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• It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.

  Michael Haneke

  Religious, Political, Would Be

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Degenerates, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.146, Hackett Publishing

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• War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

  Cornelia Meigs

  War, Impossible, Seems

  Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic

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• My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  People, Attention, Gone

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.

  Lucas Till

  Moving, Moon, Dancer

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Intelligent, People, Support

  "'Walking Dead' Dissection: Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple Talk Terror at Terminus, Preview Season 5". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 31, 2014.

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• When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Seductive, Teach

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• Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

  Lewis Mumford

  Dream, Regret, Maturity

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Achievement, World, Docile

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Law, Impossible

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1823). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself ... Hæc Ego Grandævus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector”, p.129

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• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Silence, Secret

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• If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

  Richard Branson

  Crazy, People, Enough

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014

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• War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

  Errol Morris

  War, Fate, Peculiar

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Thinking, World, Want

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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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

  Oil, Smell, Enemy

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• It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

  Jasper Fforde

  Past, Scare, Done

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Rough, Knows, Do You Know

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Giving Up, Want, Way

  Sophie Kinsella (2010). “Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)”, p.18, Random House

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• You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Boys, Giving

  "The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fire, Air

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

  Dan Wells

  World, Natural, Impossible

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Answers, Life Is

  Allison Pearson (2010). “I Don't Know How She Does It”, p.165, Random House

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• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Spiritual, Mistake, Taken

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Self

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.884, Jazzybee Verlag

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