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• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. -- Aristotle
• Reality is not always probable, or even likely.
• Aristotle's Dictum: One should always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible.
• Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.
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• Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle...
• It is always preferable to visit home with a friend.
  Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings ....
• Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferso