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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
Pythagoras

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2.
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
Benjamin Graham

3.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

4.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true,
we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes

5.
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.
George Muller

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Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
Marshall Ganz

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Aristotle

8.
The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.
J. L. Mackie

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Hope does not always require probability.
John Perry Barlow

10.
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
Nate Silver

11.
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
James Thurber

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Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould

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We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll

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An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
George Eliot

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The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
Jack Canfield

16.
Almost all life depends on probabilities.
Voltaire

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The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.
Martin Zweig

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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Thomas Huxley

19.
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
Anthony Stafford Beer

20.
What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
Elon Musk

21.
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
Bradley Efron

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We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
Charles Caleb Colton

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The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
Jeanette Winterson

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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
Cornel West

25.
We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.
Seth Klarman

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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
E. W. Howe

27.
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
Richard P. Feynman

28.
Take a dose of medicine once,
and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
Napoleon Bonaparte

29.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Plato

30.
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.
Richard Dawkins

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Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

34.
Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.
Gavin Extence

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Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
George Eliot

36.
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
Alan Greenspan

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Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.
Braden Kelley

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If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
J. D. Salinger

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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
Damon Lindelof

40.
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

41.
Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.
Peter Singer

42.
An electron is real; a probability is not.
Hans Christian von Baeyer

43.
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

44.
Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
Robert Lanza

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Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.
Richard Arnold Epstein

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The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.
Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
Murray Gell-Mann