"Unification of the fatherland is an act of supreme patriotism" (1970s), quoted in Kim Jong Il Handbook (2011) by International Business Publications USA
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says: «I'm possible!»”
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
Possibility http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possibility-3/
From the poems written in English
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.”
Attributed to Bakunin in The Explorers (1996) by Paolo Novaresio
Context: By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Written by copywriter Aimee Lehto for a series of Adidas ads in which this was superimposed over stills of various figures, including Muhammad Ali. Documented by Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/28/impossible-is/.
Misattributed
Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Variant: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92
“Nothing is impossible for pure love.”
Part I, Chapter 4, Playing the Husband
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
