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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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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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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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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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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

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