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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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• In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Giving Up, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Limits, Thinkable

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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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• My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Editing, Three, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

  James Nesbitt

  Winning, Decision, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Party, Choices

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• At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Innovation, Sometimes

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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