Probable Quotes (16 quotes)

“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
― Rod Serling

tags: fantasy, impossible, improbable, possible, probable, science-fiction

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“...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible

tags: coherent, merleau-ponty, probable, reality

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“You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.”
― Steven Magee

tags: accuse, accused, affair, affairs, affairs-of-heart, being, cheat, cheater, cheating, computer, delete, deleted, email, erase, erased, facebook, flame, friends-with-benefits, im, instant, know, letter, letters, likely, love, lover, message, messages, messenger, note, notes, old, partner, partner-abuse, partners, partnership, partnerships, past, probable, probably, remove, removed, some, then, they, unfaithful, unfaithful-partner, unfaithfulness, way

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“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.”
― Morris F. Cohen, An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

tags: certainty, error, fallible, generalizations, omniscience, probable

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“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, chance, chances, deem, deemed, fool, foolish, fools, humor, humour, impress, impression, impressions, odds, probability, probable, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, regard, regarded, satire, wisdom, wise

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“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, brother, brothers, buried, bury, dead, death, die, dying, families, family, funeral, funerals, funny, guarantee, guaranteed, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, joke, jokes, life, parent, parents, predict, predictable, probability, probable, satire, sibling, siblings, sister, sisters, unpredictable

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“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

tags: calling, duty, fear, fearful, fearing, god, ignore, ignored, impossible, mission, possible, probable, vision

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“My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: achievement, aspirations, calling, goals, impossible, low, mission, passion, probable, success, survival, surviving, threshold

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“With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: belief, believing, challenge, christian, christianity, faith, god, hope, impossible, improbable, invitation, jesus, jesus-christ, obstacle, possible, probable

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“If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in there, then it is probable that some form of infidelity has occurred.”
― Steven Magee

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“We assume the impossible to be just that…impossible. But when it comes to God, it’s impossible that anything is impossible. Therefore, if we understand this reality and if we dare to act it out in our lives, could it be that the word impossible is just an excuse?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: belief, christian, faith, god, impossible, improbable, infinite, jesus, possible, probable

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“Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.”
― Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos

tags: arctic-circle, brentford-orsini, conjoined-twins, hermaphrodites, improbable, mechanical-heads, new-venice, probable

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“Our one pain has the power to distract us from all the pleasures of the world. We can be happy in the present only when we are free from all the pains and sufferings of the past and a probable future.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

tags: distract, future, pleasures, power, probable, sufferings

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“Prayer is the choice to invade the impossible, not live out our lives hampered by the probable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: christian, faith, god, impossible, jesus, prayer, praying, probable

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