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• If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Dysfunction, Growth

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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• Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Suicide, Holiday, Men

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Motivational, Ignorance, Asking Questions

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• There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

  Nick Cooper

  Business, Equity, Consumers

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• You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

  Julian Barnes

  Long, Done, Moments

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.149, Random House

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• In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.

  Matt Ridley

  Jobs, Heart, Blood

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• One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Risk, Appearing

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• Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

  Gloria Reuben

  Weather, Climate, Pollution

  "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Friends, People, Would Be

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho

  Marriage, Girl, Strong

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• You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

  John C. Norcross

  Moving, Past, Risk

  John C. Norcross, Kristin Loberg, Jonathon Norcross (2013). “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suicidal, Thinking

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• American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Diversity, Needs

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• I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Bob Barr Leaps in as a Libertarian". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com.

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• The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.

  Eric Jensen

  Art, Remember Something, Body

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• Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Atheism, Orbit

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• Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Intelligent, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Character, Men

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• If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Investing, Buying

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• Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.

  Marc Andreessen

  Team, Smart, Thinking

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• A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Light, Origin Of Life, Spheres

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• As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

  Andrew Schneider

  Science, Men, Doctors

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• If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

  Rand Paul

  White, Jail, Usa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Friendship, People, Finding Yourself

  Deborah Eisenberg (2011). “Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

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