But now she went on, "That's just barely conceivable, just about one chance in a million, and so long as there if that chance, so long as we don't absolutely know to the contrary, I'm not going to dismiss the possibility entirely from my mind.
"We don't absolutely know what they are, but we're pretty sure what they're not," he notes.
He said, "I can write and I can talk, and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things, I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.
Three-year-old Maya's parents decide to "put an end to their calamitous marriage", and so she and her four-year-old brother Bailey are sent to stay with their grandmother (soon known as Momma) in the town of Stamps, Arkansas, where "segregation was so complete most black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like".
When she was 3 and her brother, Bailey, was 4, her parents split up and her father sent them to live with his mother in Stamps, Ark., a "musty little town" that was so segregated, Angelou wrote, that "most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like".
Make yourself known throughout school so that even if you don't know everyone, absolutely everyone knows about YOU.
There is also the issue of authenticity to contend with: we don't know absolutely and for sure that these emails were not tampered with by whoever stole them from John Podesta.
Having had to swallow American jibes about "British teeth" for all these years, my little chest swelled with dental pride on Tuesday when I learned that the Americans don't know absolutely everything about teeth – and dental patients in particular.
Studies also suggest circumcision may reduce the risk of venereal disease, he added, although "we don't know absolutely for sure if the cost balances the benefit of it".
"But there are people who don't know absolutely anything about it and I have to explain everything to them," he added, "like if it goes in the air or if it's color".
Q: "But what about how much money you send to Bermuda?" Schmidt: "I don't personally know, but we absolutely disclose it".
