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"You taught a chapter called The Impossibility of Love from a book --"
Ben Lear: Storstad 2008
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Finally, Stagg stated that he was unable to comply with the Court's Orders - the so-called Impossibility Defense - to which the Court responded:
Forbes.com: News Jay Adkisson 2012
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'Impossibility' is a word coined by weak people behind which to shelter.
Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893
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I taught an essay called The Impossibility of Love from a collection of essays. "
Ben Lear: Storstad 2008
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Men imprisoned in 'Impossibility' and Poor-Law Bastilles, it is time that some means of dealing with them were trying to become
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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With millions of eager Working Men imprisoned in 'Impossibility' and
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I've entered it in this week's Illustration Friday submission theme, "Impossibility".
nakedpastor 2009
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As Mr. Katz unpacks such legal conundrums, he posits that the perversions he finds are really creations of a paradox of voting theory, called Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
Illogical But Not Unjust Jonathan V. Last 2011
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A more recent instance of redoing the past occurred in 2006 when Damien Hirst's 1991 shark-in-a-tank work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," which had been deteriorating badly because the artist hadn't used a sufficient amount of formaldehyde, was replaced.
Daniel Grant: Artists As Restorers... Of Their Own Artwork Daniel Grant 2011
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A more recent instance of redoing the past occurred in 2006 when Damien Hirst's 1991 shark-in-a-tank work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," which had been deteriorating badly because the artist hadn't used a sufficient amount of formaldehyde, was replaced.
Daniel Grant: Artists As Restorers... Of Their Own Artwork Daniel Grant 2011
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