#probable

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. ↗

— Edward Grey

#contingency #country #critical #decide #doubtful

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#college #done #ever #going #i

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#how #impossible #improbable #matter #must

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i

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

— George P. Baker

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

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#come #improbable #most #nearly #pass

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ↗

— George Ade

#into #moves #nothing #past #tense

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#cause #check #english #id #immigration

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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