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“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend”
Agatha Christie
“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
“Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.”
Jack Handy
“Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.”
Seneca
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
Daniel H. Burnham
“My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.”
Al Pacino
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.”
Charles W. Eliot
“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
“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci”
Antoine Lavoisier