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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Like Always Prefer Convince
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.”

Busy Read Lead Never
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Work Profit Hard Use
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Seek Desire More Achieve
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Common Spiritual Empowering Ignore
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It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Life Observation Exercise Patience
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
Poor Live Long Likely
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“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

Opportunity More Likely Achieve
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“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

Direction Change LIkely Heading
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Death Life Best Single
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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Always Anybody Between Came
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

Create Done Finger Going
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Accounting Balanced Balanced Budget Budget
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Extreme Less Likely Man
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

Again Building Changed Dying
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Believe Common Everyday Indifferent
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Agreement Among Countries Disagreement
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Heaven Bits
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Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Because Complete Cultivated Difficult
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

A Dame That Knows
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Ambition Ambitious Failure Hope
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If You Don't Have
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
Courage Found Places Unlikely
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

About Ball Complains Dropped
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I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Always Amount Because Better
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

About Against Anything Bear
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Affect Age Because Children
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Change. We are more likely to remain in familiar bondage,than try foreign liberty. The average mind,does not want to dare anything, that seems unfamiliar. But you never what you are capable of until you try. What will you do differently today

Change Familiar Bondage Foreign
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God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

God Inspirational Forgotten Names
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In Nigeria, a Governor that builds roads is more likely to win re-election, and be loved by his people, than a Governor that invests in Education and Health.

Nigeria Governor Builds Roads
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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Geometry Enlightens Intellect Set
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When a man understands the nature of his wife and works according to that understanding, problems are less likely to arise in their home.

Man Wife Understands Problems
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Education is a liberator – the education of one person has the power to change outcomes in a village. Educated people who are successful make success accessible in unlikely neighborhoods.

Education Liberator Person Power
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Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.

Women Unreasoning creatures Love a man
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Been Continue Days Heroic
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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Answers Certain Come Could
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