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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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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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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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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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.
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There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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I find folding laundry very relaxing.
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Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.
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It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.
