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Seven of Nine

"Impossible" is a word that humans use far too often.

— Star Trek: Voyager · 1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker suggests people declare things impossible far more casually than the facts warrant. It reads as a mild rebuke, treating the word as a habit of giving up rather than a real limit. The implication is that many so-called impossibilities are only untested or unimagined.

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