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Because frankly, I think it's highly improbable, and second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them and said' I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse and that shows such recklessness, it's almost worse than taking the documents. – William Barr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Random shelling can not really destroy this, it would be really improbable. – Leon Cizelj	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. – Alex Kozinski	added by Normando 1 year ago
This is what fans do in March Madness. We root for the underdog. We root for the improbable. That’s why we love this tournament so much, this is the ultimate storyline. The tough kid from Queens who got hurt in the NCAA tournament and couldn't play — couldn't finish out his career — now gets the chance to coach a tough, gritty team that’s become the darling of the country, and so we literally have – I wouldn’t say David vs. Goliath — but Shaheen vs. Goliath this weekend. – John Biever	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While goals are motivating to some, they also may paralyze others who feel overwhelmed by the resolution, instead of motivating the person to achieve the goal, it may cause them to feel stuck in achieving them if too improbable. – Sabrina Romanoff	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Year after year, it never happened. This year it was improbable, we hit every pothole, every bump you could possibly hit this year, and somehow the car still made it onto the other side. It’s just an incredible group. – Will Freeman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While good friends are possible, they are improbable, like the lottery. Bad friends on the other hand are much more common, like traffic lights. – Ryan Pack	added by anonymous 3 years ago
It was an incredibly bittersweet ending with tremendous room for interpretation and conversation, from what we've seen so far,' The Last of Us II' does not seem to hold any punches, and once again showcases the improbable level of craft and borderline unhealthy levels of effort by its creators. – Rami Ismail	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable. – John Travolta	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It is highly improbable that this lock (of hair), which was presented like a (religious) relic, would be in anyway related to Leonardo da Vinci. – Eike Schmidt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The almost exclusive mission of these missiles is to engage Russia, or Russia and China simultaneously, in large-scale nuclear conflict, such wartime scenarios have become unthinkable. Waging war against both countries simultaneously is a contingency so improbable that Patrick Shanahan.However planners can safely ignore it. – Patrick Shanahan.However	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Grant Harrold insisted. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry pose for photos and show off Meghan Markle engagement ring. ( AP) Sally Bedell Smith, author of Prince Charles : The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, although Meghan has had a successful career in acting, I believe she will quit the profession. – Meghan Markle	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet, and access to the largest telescopes on the planet, we can look at The Breakthrough with greater sensitivity and for a wider range of signal types than any other experiment in the world. Related : Why is this star dimming ? Astronomers still don't know One farfetched theory about the star is that aliens are somehow responsible for the star’s dimming, perhaps by having built a structure that passes in front of it, although Dan Werthimer, the chief scientist at Berkeley SETI, said Andrew Siemion thinks that’s incredibly improbable. – Andrew Siemion	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We should expect the improbable to increase, the rise of anti-establishment parties is a product of low growth, rising inequality, a political system that's failed to deliver and an over-reliance on central banks. – Mohamed El-Erian	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Taking on a challenge that probably was viewed by some as improbable, this was going to be both physically hard, and would make me 'e tougher mentally as well, sharing that with other veterans was very rewarding. We were all there with stories to talk about. – Cory Remsburg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But if we think about all the things that can harm people, a (mass shooting) is a very, very improbable event and seeing it on TV nonstop makes it feel more probable but doesn't make it actually more probable. – David Anderegg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
However improbable it is that Trump emerges as the nominee, I would not bet against him, he can win states with 25 percent or 30 percent of the vote. – Joe Trippi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the Friday numbers come in weak, it certainly makes more improbable that we'll have a June lift-off, and then maybe calls into question what happens in September. – Tim Dreiling	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter. – Phil Lounibos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. – George Ade	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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. – Barack Obama	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable…you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference. – Gary Holder-Winfield	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Because frankly, I think it's highly improbable, and second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them and said' I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse and that shows such recklessness, it's almost worse than taking the documents.

– William Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Random shelling can not really destroy this, it would be really improbable.

– Leon Cizelj

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

– Alex Kozinski

added by Normando
1 year ago

This is what fans do in March Madness. We root for the underdog. We root for the improbable. That’s why we love this tournament so much, this is the ultimate storyline. The tough kid from Queens who got hurt in the NCAA tournament and couldn't play — couldn't finish out his career — now gets the chance to coach a tough, gritty team that’s become the darling of the country, and so we literally have – I wouldn’t say David vs. Goliath — but Shaheen vs. Goliath this weekend.

– John Biever

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While goals are motivating to some, they also may paralyze others who feel overwhelmed by the resolution, instead of motivating the person to achieve the goal, it may cause them to feel stuck in achieving them if too improbable.

– Sabrina Romanoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Year after year, it never happened. This year it was improbable, we hit every pothole, every bump you could possibly hit this year, and somehow the car still made it onto the other side. It’s just an incredible group.

– Will Freeman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While good friends are possible, they are improbable, like the lottery. Bad friends on the other hand are much more common, like traffic lights.

– Ryan Pack

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It was an incredibly bittersweet ending with tremendous room for interpretation and conversation, from what we've seen so far,' The Last of Us II' does not seem to hold any punches, and once again showcases the improbable level of craft and borderline unhealthy levels of effort by its creators.

– Rami Ismail

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable.

– John Travolta

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It is highly improbable that this lock (of hair), which was presented like a (religious) relic, would be in anyway related to Leonardo da Vinci.

– Eike Schmidt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The almost exclusive mission of these missiles is to engage Russia, or Russia and China simultaneously, in large-scale nuclear conflict, such wartime scenarios have become unthinkable. Waging war against both countries simultaneously is a contingency so improbable that Patrick Shanahan.However planners can safely ignore it.

– Patrick Shanahan.However

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Grant Harrold insisted. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry pose for photos and show off Meghan Markle engagement ring. ( AP) Sally Bedell Smith, author of Prince Charles : The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, although Meghan has had a successful career in acting, I believe she will quit the profession.

– Meghan Markle

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet, and access to the largest telescopes on the planet, we can look at The Breakthrough with greater sensitivity and for a wider range of signal types than any other experiment in the world. Related : Why is this star dimming ? Astronomers still don't know One farfetched theory about the star is that aliens are somehow responsible for the star’s dimming, perhaps by having built a structure that passes in front of it, although Dan Werthimer, the chief scientist at Berkeley SETI, said Andrew Siemion thinks that’s incredibly improbable.

– Andrew Siemion

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We should expect the improbable to increase, the rise of anti-establishment parties is a product of low growth, rising inequality, a political system that's failed to deliver and an over-reliance on central banks.

– Mohamed El-Erian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Taking on a challenge that probably was viewed by some as improbable, this was going to be both physically hard, and would make me 'e tougher mentally as well, sharing that with other veterans was very rewarding. We were all there with stories to talk about.

– Cory Remsburg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But if we think about all the things that can harm people, a (mass shooting) is a very, very improbable event and seeing it on TV nonstop makes it feel more probable but doesn't make it actually more probable.

– David Anderegg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

However improbable it is that Trump emerges as the nominee, I would not bet against him, he can win states with 25 percent or 30 percent of the vote.

– Joe Trippi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the Friday numbers come in weak, it certainly makes more improbable that we'll have a June lift-off, and then maybe calls into question what happens in September.

– Tim Dreiling

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.

– Phil Lounibos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

– George Ade

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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.

– Barack Obama

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable…you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.

– Gary Holder-Winfield

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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