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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
William Gibson

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
Nick Johnson

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Gustav Stresemann

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

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
Michael Parkinson

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
John Shirley

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.
Richard Gere

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
Wilfred Owen

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide

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

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Lewis Mumford

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable because sometimes the unthinkable happens.
Mike Leavitt

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
Neil Sheehan

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
Bruce Sterling

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
Barry Pepper

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster

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