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• But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.

  Guy Spier

  Thinking, People, Important

  Guy Spier (2014). “The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment”, p.20, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Thesis

  Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.18, TAN Books

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• Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

  James Marcus Bach

  Bugs, Invisible, Process

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• To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Wenger

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• Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

  Garry Kasparov

  Levels, Chess, Loser

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Children, Epidemics, Land

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• The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

  Thomas Berry

  Animal, Community, Culture

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• From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Order, Childhood, Age

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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• To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

  Albert Lutuli

  War, Men, Skills

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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• I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

  Drake

  Relationship, Tattoo, Girl

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• The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hands, Space, Car

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• What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Circles, Paper, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Love Is, Mirrors

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• It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

  Stockwell Day

  Prayer, Political, Would Be

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• Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, War, Home

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• The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Self, Achieve

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

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• What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Responsibility, Age

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.657, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Men, Thinking, Holocaust

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• She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Children, Taken, Son

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• Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching Fire, Gale, Mines

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.638, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Past, Atrocities, Failing

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• What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Sleep, Impossible, Nightmare

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• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  Warren Buffett

  Medicine, Economic, Barrels

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2009.

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