"Washington's task was to transform the improbable into……" — Joseph J. Ellis

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• Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
• The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
• Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade
• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I… — C.S. Lewis
• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley… — John Playfair
• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat… — Thomas Boswell
• I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable,… — Og Mandino
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith… — H. L. Mencken
• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed,… — Abraham Maslow
• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of… — Peter Kreeft
• The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould
• I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big… — Richard Dawkins

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