#probable

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. ↗

— George Stoneman

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#classes #divided #improbable #incredible #into

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#impossible #improbable #man #never

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. ↗

— Edward Grey

#contingency #country #critical #decide #doubtful

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#around #been #catastrophe #concern #continent

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. ↗

— Rod Sterling

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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. ↗

— Kenneth Patchen

#existence #improbable #music #music