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“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Way Economy Impossible Labor Function Workers Strikes Selling Live By Capitalist Capitalist Economy

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.”

Ifs Thinking Break Impossible Tvs Genre

Author:Natalie Zea

“I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.”

Years Would Be Today Impossible Missing Tough Years Ago Driving Tough Times Daisies

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.”

Kind Has Beens Would Be Today Stars Pieces Impossible Tough Dramatic Verdict Newman

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”

“Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.”

People Ifs Way Want Mind Wells Ideas Reason Problem Opportunity Results Deals Creativity Impossible Crazy Finals Tendencies Opponents Allies Constraints Boost Most Amazing Crazy Ideas

Author:Martin Villeneuve

“Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.”

Made Done Impossible Economics

Author:Joel Bakan

“It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.”

Looks Children Two Government Nations Results Impossible Thirds Profession Analysis

Book:Collected papers ...

Source: Collected papers ...

“It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.”

Made Impossible

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.”

Universe My Own Impossible Limits Constant Expansion

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .”

Thinking Soul Impossible Heresy

Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy

“Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.”

Should Impossible

Author:Robert Bresson

“But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!”

Men Mind Eye Impossible

Book:The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

Feels Ideas Form Impossible Comfortable

Author:Al Gore

“We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.”

Ifs Goal Effort Impossible Aim Diminish

Author:Dorothy Day

“Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.”

World Should Humans Behinds Impossible Proud Storm Finished Abstract Ashamed Be Proud Blueprints Vaults

Author:Tomas Transtromer

“Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.”

Ifs Feels Heart Feelings Emotion Impossible Events Keys Gratitude Negative Abundance Ungrateful Thoughts And Feelings Key To Happiness Negative Emotions Complete Life

Author:Vishen Lakhiani

“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”

Knowing Impossible Weakness Features Compliment Scar Acceptable Adversaries Cherries

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.”

Men Want Impossible Fellows Fellow Man

Book:The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism

Source: The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism

“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”

Should Mother Courses Grief Darkness Impossible Possibility Deny Grieving Rebirth Transforming Radiant Old Life

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“It is impossible to reign innocently.”

Power Impossible Reign

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.”

People Seems Asks Force Process Enjoy Goal Lines Roles Impossible Genius Projects Crosses Architecture Ask Me Budgets Sheer Wire Fashionable Force Of Will

Author:Curtis W. Fentress

“It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.”

Country Interest Company Impossible Soil Divides

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.”

Impossible Victory Strikes Communist Employers

Author:James P. Cannon

“I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, "What do we do? We want to do what you do." It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.”

People Want Impossible Band Call Me Just Do It Very Popular

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.”

Impossible Angry

Author:Kathleen Troia McFarland

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”

Impossible Civilization Built Instinct Intuition Renunciation Natural Instinct

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.”

Needs Interesting Impossible Crowds Comic Nerd Surf Comic Con

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

Way Giving Doe Impossible Ego Patient Reactions One Way Analysis Psychoanalysis

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?”

People Needs Care Numbers Support Economy Impossible Sick Population Medical Expensive Medical Care

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Would Be Names Impossible Mines

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.”

Play Impossible Trump Cards Human Condition

Author:Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.”

Knows Want Needs Believe Reason Helping Use Faith Christ Impossible Definitions Courageous Almighty

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.”

Believe America Impossible Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Lawrence Eagleburger

“A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.”

Country Dream Film Impossible Small Countries

Author:Nadine Labaki

“Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.”

Difficult Impossible Dying

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”

World Art Today Form Impossible Size France Cinema Representing

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Running Today Can Do Impossible One Thing Computer Draws Dinosaurs

Author:John Badham

“Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.”

Ideas Faces Choices Results Impossible Middle Shapes Come Up Great Idea Practicality Bad Choices

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.”

Want School Jobs Impossible Decided Flying Where You Are Judged Airline Grad Grad School Seniority

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.”

Knows Sound Impossible Jimmy

Author:Benmont Tench

“It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.”

Culture Sin Taken Impossible Right Now Oneself

Author:Michael Tolkin

“On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.”

Stills Levels Attention Impossible Car Changed Daughter Unhappy My Daughter Pool Monday Being Unhappy

Author:Michael Tolkin

“I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.”

Knows Whole Song Stuff Numbers Wonder Impossible Hair Listening Band Including Awful 80s Ipods Single Word Live Music Bad Music Hair Bands

Author:Lauren Weisberger

“Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”

Belief Impossible Perseverance

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons”

Reason Law Order Liberty Enemy Impossible Morality Property Organized Hypocrisy Coward Honour Robbery Dupes

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.”

Easy Break Impossible Married Bread Host Betray Salt Covenant Comrade Matrimony Married Women Disloyal

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.”

Needs Seems Wise Impossible Easier Patience Being Wise

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

“The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.”

Should President Party Democracy Impossible Independent Exposed Impossibility Mubarak

Author:Madeleine Albright