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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. — John Ruskin
Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King… — Don King
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… — Edward Hoagland
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference.… — Robert K. Greenleaf
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
God is love? Not bloody likely. — Edward Abbey
Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in… — Edward Abbey
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering… — Mercy Otis Warren
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them… — Benjamin Franklin
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable â€¦ A representative democracy, where the right of election is well… — Alexander Hamilton
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,… — Thomas Paine
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with… — Isaac Asimov
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
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
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path… — Manny Farber
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to… — Andrew Sarris
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
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become… — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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