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“If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.”

Ifs Persons States Understanding Impossible Capable Consequence Guides Outcomes

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.”

Men Impossible Negative Operations One Man Messed Up Filing

Author:Garry Winogrand

“It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable.”

People Needs Should Helping Problem Passion Sports Practice Millions Impossible Healthy Solve Lifestyle Pills Fashionable Healthy Lifestyle Health Problems

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.”

Needs Real Fighting Environment Impossible Achieve Integrity Aim Instruments International Terrorism Terrorist Russia Practicals Preserves Organisation Territorial

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit sexual relations, including prohibited heterosexual acts like adultery. And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove. You need four witnesses to say they witnessed (sexual) penetration. In what circumstances are you going to find someone to testify to that?”

Needs Book Law Strong Fiction Four Impossible Circumstances Prove Relation Including Punishment Witness Relate Islamic Homosexuality Adultery Penetration Islamic Law

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.”

Law Justice Impossible Owners

Author:Arthur Baer

“What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.”

“This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.”

Humanity Impossible Racism

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.”

Ifs Character Facts Order Impossible Genuine Desirable Good And Bad Identification

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Alessandro [Michele] has really done the impossible. He's taken this classic brand [Gucci] and really turned it completely around and taken it in a direction that was so unexpected. [Alessandro and I] met and became friends here in L.A., and then we got to know each other and he asked me to do this. It was really organic and not the way this stuff normally happens.”

Knows Way Done Happens Stuff Taken Impossible Mets Brands Classic Unexpected Gucci

Author:Jared Leto

“Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.”

Ifs Love Self Faces Compassion Impossible Love You Self Love Self Confidence Love Yourself Face To Face

Author:John Pierrakos

“Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.”

Men Way Giving Mean Reality Christian Desire Hate Passion Sin Impossible One Thing Pride Greed Reactions Orthodox Gratification Indulgence Orthodox Christian Corresponding

Book:Discourses and Sayings

Source: Discourses and Sayings

“Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.”

Heart Enough Dream Impossible Your Dreams Good Enough Not Good Enough Improbable True Heart

Author:Brendon Burchard

“It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.”

Ifs Said Stills Hard Individual Grows Goal Wealth Study Impossible Management Investing Active Justify Fund Investors Active Management

Author:Mark Hulbert

“One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.”

Should Easy Impossible Virtuous Virtuous Life

Author:Anthony the Great

“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.”

Winning Impossible Chess

Author:A. A. Milne

“There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.”

People Ifs Different Remember Courses Impossible Enormous Scare Something Better Inertia Converses

Author:Amar Bose

“In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.”

Way Today Democracy Impossible Media Dictatorship Media Today

Author:Shimon Peres

“Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls?”

Ifs Play Home Games Goal Impossible Balls Score Stations Messi

Author:Radamel Falcao

“The fact is certain because it is impossible.”

Facts Certain Impossible

Author:Tertullian

“It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.”

Play Moments Impossible Safe Balls Sight

Author:Ranjitsinhji

“In stages, the impossible becomes possible.”

Impossible Stage Impossible Becomes Possible

Book:Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya

Source: Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya

“Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.”

Impossible Blood Taste Indochina

Author:Doug Rice

“It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.”

Writing Different Impossible Distinctive Stylist Joyce Woolf

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.”

Impossible Dangerous Physicist

Author:Michio Kaku

“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.”

Problem Law Impossible Physics Engineering Preventing Laws Of Physics Engineering Inspirational

Author:Michio Kaku

“One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process.”

Writing Kind Two Seems Process Enjoy Rooms Laughing Impossible Lonely Absolutes Delight Joyful Comforting Undertakings

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.”

Giving Ideas Country Party Study Impossible Theory Revolution Socialism October Bolsheviks Russian Revolution Appendix October Revolution

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.”

Country Effort Impossible Achieve Victory Tasks Socialism Definite Combined Effort

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.”

Giving Impossible Conditions Victory Strategy Objectives

Author:Leon Trotsky

“If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.”

Ifs Wells Mean Fun Answers Talking Impossible

Author:Ian Bogost

“As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.”

People Knows Has Beens Made Courses Know How Impossible Influence Ridiculous Reviews Scandal

Author:Curtis Hanson

“Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main objectives, is much more difficult than changing how nuclear energy is used for military purposes. Some think it may be impossible.”

Thinking May Used Purpose Energy Difficult Growth Impossible Economic Military Depends Nuclear Objectives Bent Fossils Economic Growth Economic Systems Nuclear Energy

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.”

Difficult Interesting Numbers Quality Impossible Summer Royal Academy Exhibitions

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.”

May Has Beens Justice Cases Impossible Evidence Criminals Trials Drunk Witness Assault Justice System Sexual Assault Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System

Author:Jon Shenk

“The family of Keith Scott viewed the police video and it`s worth repeating that afterward the family made a statement through their lawyers which reads in part, "It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands. When he was shot and killed, Mr. Scott`s hands were by his side and he was slowly walking backwards."”

Ifs Made Hands Sides Impossible Walking Shots Police Lawyer Statements Video What If Backwards Keith Walking Backwards

Author:Chris Hayes

“It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.”

Giving Has Beens Stills States Character President United United States Impossible Kings Deception Britain Employed Gross Deliberate Pretense Great Britain Magistrates Imposition

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.”

Knows World Kind Moving Names Challenges Impossible Policy Changed Right Now Approach China Russia Tunes Aggressive Architect Foreign Policy Diplomatic Advocating Center Of The World

Author:Jill Stein

“I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing my purpose in life, I think it's impossible for anybody to be successful until they really discover why they're here on earth and what God has planned for them; secondly, growing to my maximum potential.”

Thinking Said Book Earth Purpose Three Knowing Successful Growing Impossible Being Successful Purpose Of Life Maximum Three Things Maximum Potential

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.”

Thinking Trying Impossible Definitions Boxes

Author:Paula White

“We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.”

People Trying Sometimes Shows Age House Stuff Impossible This Day

Author:Scott Eastwood

“My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.”

People Knows Writing Mean Fun Ability Worry Impossible Singing Knack Forte

Author:Petra Haden

“I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.”

Feels Impossible Limits Bored

Author:Vince Staples

“I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.”

Thinking Has Beens Done Impossible Scholarship Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).”

Mind Different States Pain Impossible Involved Conscious Claims Assuming Painful Metaphysical Ruling Thesis

Author:Elliott Sober

“It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.”

Facts Would Be Impossible Trump

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.”

People Thinking Important Political Careers Impossible Tough My Time Ducks Lame Wasting My Time

Author:John Kasich

“My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.”

Would Be Wanted Careers Impossible Achieve Photographer National Geographic

Author:Sam Abell

“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.”

“It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.”

Ifs Has Beens Stories Violence Impossible Dog Horror Horse Valleys Could Have Been Horror Stories

Author:Ti West

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