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• Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.

  Jane Goodall

  Important, Today, Meat

  "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating". Book by Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy, Jane Goodall, 2006.

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• Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, People

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Clouds, Able, Camels

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.245, Univ of California Press

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• Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Thinking, Technology

  Alan Lightman (2005). “A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit”, p.115, Vintage

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• Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

  Hugh Massingberd

  Survival, Alive, Rooms

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• The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.

  Benjamin Graham

  Smart, Taken, Differences

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• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  Alexander Haig

  Truth, Loss, Reality

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• It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

  Kevin Rudd

  Way, Economy, Forums

  "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.

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• Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Enemy, Allies, Action

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Meaningful, Ice Cream, People

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.

  James Berardinelli

  Summer, Real, Dust

  "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Clouds, Enlightenment

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• What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

  Andrew Roberts

  Winter, Europe, History

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• John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out of this world. The dance was slow and smoochy. I was aloof and John, I think, was slightly embarrassed. It was all very painful and beautiful at the same time. The remaining students were looking on with puzzled expressions at such an unlikely combination.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Thinking, Expression

  Cynthia Lennon (1980). “A twist of Lennon”, Avon Books

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• It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

  Epictetus

  Men, Shells, Should

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book I, Chapter 20,

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• It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

  James MacDonald

  Lying, Would Be, Matter

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.60, Moody Publishers

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• By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Investing, Discounts

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• ... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Injury, Produce

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• You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Attitude, Buddhism

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• Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

  Joseph Lowery

  Moving, Tired, White

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• Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

  Francis Crick

  Synthesis, Protein, Genuine

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• I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

  Brian Molko

  Jesus, Hate, Light

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• While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

  Alan Greenspan

  Diversity, Imbalance, Size

  "The mortgage market and consumer debt". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At America’s Community Bankers Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

  Elliott Abrams

  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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