You need enough ignorance to believe the impossible is possible and enough confidence to turn the impossibility into a reality.
Where a person is missing in an accident and a a relevant organization has ascertained the impossibility of survival, the period of the public notice is three months.
The judge held that the plaintiff was entitled to excise precisely one pound of flesh from the defendant, but that he must shed not a drop of blood-an obvious impossibility.
What it has reminded us of, he argues, is simply the impossibility of seeing these events in advance.
The impossibility of disproving egoism may sound like a virtue of the theory, but, as philosophers of science know, it's really a fatal drawback.
I was taken to a certain place, whence I was led blindfold to the house, and afterward brought back again in the same manner; you see, therefore, the impossibility of my doing what you desire.
And so, we get many more statements of "Japanese uniqueness" and the impossibility of foreigners truly understanding Japan.
Moreover, it had been a long time since he had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for Marius' timid and reserved nature.
Obviously, given that impossibility, we have to do the next best thing.
This was partly because I believed that what stained a country’s “honor” was not the discussion of the black spots in its history but the impossibility of any discussion at all.
I was getting excited about trying a chemical-free beer, but then I realized that such a thing is an impossibility!
There is absolutely no reason for us to believe that a brighter future for the world is an impossibility.
This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.
The reason is that the principle proves the existence (or impossibility) of a particular phenomenon.
A challenge but not an impossibility.
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