Less Likely Quotes
150 quotes by 140 authors
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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…
— Benjamin Carson
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that…
— William J. Clinton
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A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you…
— Pete Carril
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances…
— Agnes Repplier
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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting…
— Harry Browne
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The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
— Robert Breault
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
— James Surowiecki
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You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely…
— Thomas Sowell
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
— James Madison
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According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll…
— Tina Fey
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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at…
— Robin Williams
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People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna…
— Bill Nye
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The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
— James Madison
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The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute…
— Paul Burrell
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Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the…
— John Paul Stevens
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Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
— Derek Sivers
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Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times…
— Peter Kirsanow
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They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there.…
— Patric Verrone
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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Who Wrote These Less Likely Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 150 Less Likely Quotes, led by these top contributors: