#unthinkable

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. ↗

— Luis Figo

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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. ↗

— Nick Johnson

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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