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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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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Reality is not always probable, or likely. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. ↗

— George Vancouver

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Oscar Wilde

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