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“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].”

Helping Support Impossible Willing Return Kings England Prison Financial Jew Trials Arrangements Adequate Advise Assassins Admission Financial Support Charles I

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.”

Love Hate Impossible Return

Book:Tragedies

Source: Tragedies

“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Self Age Sides Memories Watches Impossible Journey Return Messages Draws Garden Distance Old Age Horizon Void Sunlight Signals Astronaut Quietness Watch Me Decipher Ripening Far Side

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.”

Firsts Political Impossible Return Decades Factors Defined Eras Decline Political Leadership Halcyon Days

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.”

Men World Way Firsts Lasts Three Practice Impossible Return Universal Revenge Endeavor Despise Censure Three Ways

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.”

States Body Given Impossible Return Machines Originals Various Perpetual Constructs Accord Entropy Perpetual Motion

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.”

Way Trying Years Children Art Said Gone Impossible One Thing Return Raised

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.”