#impossibility

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

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So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible ↗

— Mildred D. Taylor

#inspirational #possibility #inspirational

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. ↗

— Geena Davis

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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

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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. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Impossibility is a dictionary word. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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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

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The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

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