Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
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I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
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Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.
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I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.
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It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.
