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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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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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