What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.
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A plausible impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person o...
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
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Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our me...
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before
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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
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