The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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