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impossibilities

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  • noun Plural form of impossibility.

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Examples

  • On what basis do we distinguish the paradigm shift required to redefine FTL, time travel or alternative realities as possibilities rather than impossibilities from a similar paradigm shift that would redefine, for example, ESP, jaunting or intersecting realities as possibilities rather than impossibilities?

    Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • On what basis do we distinguish the paradigm shift required to redefine FTL, time travel or alternative realities as possibilities rather than impossibilities from a similar paradigm shift that would redefine, for example, ESP, jaunting or intersecting realities as possibilities rather than impossibilities?

    Once More Into The Fray Hal Duncan 2007

  • Deus non jubet impossibilia, sed jubendo monet et facere quod possis et petere quod non possis -- God does not enjoin impossibilities, but by his commands admonishes us to do what is in our power and to pray for what is not.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • What are level two and three impossibilities, so-called impossibilities?

    Deepak Chopra: Michio Kaku Interview By Deepak Chopra 2010

  • The genre is not about exploring possibilities, as science fiction does, but about losing ourselves in impossibilities.

    July 2007 2007

  • The genre is not about exploring possibilities, as science fiction does, but about losing ourselves in impossibilities.

    SF Tidbits for 7/21/07 2007

  • Because, I would argue that he has already given us everything one man or woman can give another, the ability to see the possibilities and not the impossibilities, which is, in short, the ability overcome any obstacle or shortcoming that they might encounter.

    Will America Regret Electing Obama? 2008

  • That all things are possible I unhesitatingly believe, -- I have, even in my short time, seen so many so-called impossibilities proved possible.

    The Beetle Richard Marsh

  • Try and achieve impossibilities, which is what I am doing on my side.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • 'Real life always does that,' was her reply; 'the so-called impossibilities of melodrama are in reality the prosiest of realism.'

    "The Pomp of Yesterday" Joseph Hocking 1898

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