#probable

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#improbable #respect

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. ↗

— George P. Baker

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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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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

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At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look. ↗

— Ron Livingston

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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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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

#likely #probable #reality