#possible

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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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. ↗

— M. C. Escher

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here. ↗

— Ruth Brown

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We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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