Likely Quotes

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A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations.… — George Carey
Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have… — Michael Meacher
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen. — Derek Sivers
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony… — Paul D. Boyer
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is… — Akio Morita
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this… — Ulysses S. Grant
Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is… — Steven Pinker
Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem.… — P.J. O'Rourke
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see… — Richard Farson
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. — Barbara Sher
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he… — Socrates
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality… — Plato
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives… — Plato
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself. — Socrates
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable… — Sophocles
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all… — Plato
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and… — Unknown Author

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