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en With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best of my knowledge, people are not doing credible analysis on the risks facing this country, and if they were, who's to know that those are static probabilities?

en The average value for the troubled company index from January 1990 to the present is 14.2%. The index value for January means that credit conditions are currently better than 96% of the 15 year historical period covered by the index. The number of companies with default probabilities between 1% and 5% remained unchanged in January at 4.6% of the universe. Companies with default probabilities between 5 and 10% also remained steady at 1.0% of the universe. Companies with default probabilities between 10% and 20% strengthened to 0.7% of the universe from 0.9% in December. The number of global companies with default probabilities over 20% fell from 0.7% to 0.6% of the universe.

en We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. We only work with things that are proven.
  Jose Maria Aznar

en Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
  George Boole

en But give people more information, and we can incorporate it into our thinking process. We can attach and assign probabilities and then more or less go on with our normal lives. I think that's exactly what's unfolding.

en It allows you to take a view on probabilities.

en Fate laughs at probabilities
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en Arguments derived from probabilities are idle
  Platon

en Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities
  George Eliot

en It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson. Our probabilities this year are high above average.

en It's a matter of thinking about possibilities instead of probabilities.

en The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.

en REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
  James A. Froude

en All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
  Charles W. Eliot


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