The Impossible Missions Force (IMF) was a fictional independent espionage agency sometimes used by the United States government. The IMF was introduced in the TV series Mission: Impossible that was broadcast from 1966 through 1973, and later in the revival TV series shown from 1988 through 1990. Beginning in 1996, the IMF has been featured in a number of motion pictures that starred Tom Cruise ("Ethan Hunt") and Jon Voight ("Jim Phelps"), including Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol as the "Impossible Mission Force."
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“What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it stares us in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing’s name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.—For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)