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• One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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• If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

  Wilfred Owen

  Soldier, Historical, Ifs

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• Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider

  Sandra Scarr

  Husband, War, Work

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• I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Past, Names, Giving

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• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Football, Invasion

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• The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

  George Takei

  Gay, Issues, Political

  Star Trek's 'Sulu' Comes Out of Closet, www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2005.

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• We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

  James Dyson

  Silly, Naughty, People

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

  Walpola Rahula

  Teaching, Answers, May

  Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.32, Oneworld Publications

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• The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley.

  Chris Espinosa

  Two, Gaps, Macintosh

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• Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, Littles, Tribes

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

  Park Dietz

  Blood, Hands, Gloves

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

  Evan Davis

  Clothes, Comedy, Sometimes

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• A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

  Judith Martin

  Apology, Apologizing, Etiquette

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• Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

  Mitt Romney

  Pathways, Accomplish, Interest

  "Mitt Romney: ‘Palestinians Have No Interest Whatsoever In Establishing Peace’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Two, Problem

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• [Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

  Paulo Freire

  Greatness, Judging, Dignity

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Atoms, Invisible, Potency

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3152, Manonmani Publishers

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• Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

  Ernest Holmes

  Attitude, Ideas, Impossible

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.199, Penguin

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• You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Race, Mass Destruction

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• Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

  Karl Kautsky

  Democracy, Socialism

  John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers

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• War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  War, Ideas, People

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.

  Mario Bunge

  Independent, Ideas, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• ... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Artist, Ornaments

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• If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Fall, Fighting

  "DeLay makes intense appeal for Jewish voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, School, Government

  "Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2006.

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