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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Secret, Trying

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• It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, Gestures, Universe

  Ernest Holmes (2006). “The Hidden Power of the Bible”, p.78, Penguin

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• Nothing is impossible to the man who will

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Men, He Man, Nothing Is Impossible

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Progress, Ugly

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• Some things are impossible.

  Alex Van Halen

  Impossibility

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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• It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jan 28, 2015

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• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Engineering, Differences

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.691, Pan Macmillan

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Hope, Encouragement

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

  Victor Hugo

  Vision, Unforeseen

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.986, Modern Library

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• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Smile

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• It is either easy or impossible.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Artist, Easy

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• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

  Jonathan Winters

  Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible, Possibility

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• Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Healing, Facts

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• 1. 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. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

  Wernher von Braun

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "At My Best: 365 Meditations For The Physical, Spiritual, And Emotional Well-Being". Book by Anonymous (p. 284), October 14, 2009.

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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Science, Universe, Impossibility

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• nothing is impossible

  Walt Disney

  Happiness, Inspiring, Moving On

  Walt Disney (1988). “The jungle book”, p.17, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Agency, Sensual, Vision

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