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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Results from Classic Quotes:

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816), The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.: E. W. Dijkstra
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?: Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
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