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Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries… — Sandra Day O'Connor
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem… — Clifford D. Simak
Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in… — William Randolph Hearst
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. — James T. Farrell
The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a… — Elena Kagan
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
To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be… — John Paul Stevens
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that… — Epictetus
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.… — Saint John Chrysostom
There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it. — Seth Godin
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do.… — Henry Mintzberg
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter… — Dirk Kempthorne
Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes… — Steve Pavlina
The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a… — William Jennings Bryan
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount… — Bjorn Lomborg

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