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"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

tags: beliefs, breakfast, humor, impossible

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"Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree."
— John Candy

tags: impossible, jell-o, tree

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"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!"
— Ezra Taft Benson

tags: impossible, righteousness

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"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

tags: forethought, impossible, plan, vision

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"He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!"
— Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, creativity, failure, fantasy, impossible, writers, writing

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"The uncreative will always waste their energies on the impossible. Be unable to recognize the boundaries, how much of the spiritual the objects can bear and assume."
— Carl Einstein (Bebuquin)

tags: critics, impossible

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