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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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

— Kenneth Patchen

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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

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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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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

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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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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ↗

— George Ade

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It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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