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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Sterling

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — Anais Nin

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look. — Ron Livingston

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. — Tony Campolo

When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. — Lara St. John

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising. — Calvin Coolidge

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not. — Aldous Huxley

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down. — Chuck Jones

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz

The universe makes it possible. Your mindset makes it probable. Your action makes it reality. — Steve Maraboli

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things. — Joseph Hansen

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. — Walter Dill Scott

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police. — Al Sharpton

I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause. — Ronnie Shakes

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable. — Alasdair Gray

Do not fear to think even the most not-probable. — Bram Stoker

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas

Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate. — Lee Child

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men. — Petrus Borel

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. — C.S. Lewis

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. — George Stoneman

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. — Elon Musk

Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones. — Samir Okasha

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable — Ilyas Kassam

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery

Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable. — Irwin Redlener

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds — H.Q. Frost

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it. — John Steinbeck

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. — Honore De Balzac

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle.

The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle.

How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests. — Anne Bosworth Greene

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment. — Christiaan Huygens

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. — Sir Fulke Greville

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds. — Stephen Hawking

You're art that cannot be concealed ... danger that cannot be tamed ... love that cannot be measured ... a new law that denies a probable outcome. — Amy A. Bartol

It's probable that doctors would tell me indulging Dad's delusions is not advisable, but what the hell. — Giselle Simlett

What's my problem? I have so many, but violent tendencies and probable demonic origins are the ones that should concern you. — Laini Taylor

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause. — Kiese Laymon

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination — Cressida Cowell

A proposition is in itself neither probable nor improbable. An event occurs or does not occur, there is no middle course — Anonymous

During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's — Douglas E. Richards

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle.

Evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire") — William S. Wilson

We can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About — Bill Bryson

There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. — George Santayana

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. — Thomas Malthus

We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow. — Baruch Spinoza

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable. — Camille Flammarion

Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. — Thomas Clarkson

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

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper

It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health. — Maud Grieve

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible. — Ally Condie

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent ... — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt. — Dara Horn

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. — William Godwin

Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned. — Alice Hoffman

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable.

--Sir Dick White, Head of MI6, 1956-1968 — John Knoerle

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable. — David Allen Sibley

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them. — Steve Backley

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical — John Steinbeck

And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.
And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said. — Plato

It is more than possible; it is probable. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. — Jack Williamson

head. "I don't understand." "The details are still unclear, but the probable motive is robbery. — Netta Newbound

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years. — Patricia Churchland

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? — Bertrand Russell

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker

With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins

The probable is what usually happens. — Aristotle.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. — George Pierce Baker

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk. — Warren Buffett

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions. — Michael J. Schmoker

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment. — Charley Pride

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause. — Michael Crichton

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P. J. O'Rourke

It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems. — T.F. Hodge