“ The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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“ The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ”
- Tom Landry- Copy
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“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”
- Aaron Copland- Copy
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“ Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ”
- Ronald Fisher- Copy
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“ The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ”
- Christopher Reeve- Copy
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“ If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ The yes-but person always manages to find a negative that outweighs any positives. Or dreams out improbable rationalizations to excuse an obvious negative. Yes-but people get in their own — and others' — way. ”
- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf- Copy
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“ It is the formidable character of the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult, even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or paint pictures unless he is an optimist? ”
- Lionel Tiger- Copy
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“ The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat — like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle it took such months to get. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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