“My father taught me to understand that not much was impossible, if you had a mind to go after it.”

—  Lewis Pugh

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Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: My father taught me to understand that not much was impossible, if you had a mind to go after it. What seems beyond you is only unreachable if that’s what you believe.

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