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Your Quotes for 18 March 2006 - Impossible

Peter Aurness was born at Minneapolis, Minnesota on this day in 1926. He took to performing early, joining the musicians union at age 15 to play clarinet and saxophone in local dance bands. At 16 he was an announcer at WMIN. After high school he spent two years in the Air Force, then came home to major in drama at the University of Minnesota. After graduation he left for Hollywood, changing his name to Peter Graves. (His older brother Jim dropped only one character, changing his name to Arness, becoming Marshall Dillon on Gunsmoke.) His career has been a great success, with film and television credits running for pages, but he is best known for the role of Jim Phelps on the TV series Mission: Impossible. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, Theme: Impossible.

The impossible has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
     - Douglas Noel Adams, 1952 - 2001

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
     - Epictetus

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
     - Eric Hoffer, 1902 - 1983

Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible. I think. I think it's in my basement, let me go upstairs and check.
     - Maurits Cornelius Escher, 1898 - 1972

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
     - Francis of Assisi, 1182 - 1226

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
     - Walter Elias Disney, 1901 - 1966

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