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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err… — Stephen Jay Gould
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. — Charles I of England
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the… — Henry Ford
Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as… — Louis Pasteur
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols… — Edward Sapir
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in… — Marshall Goldsmith
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself. — Nicolas Chamfort
I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely… — Wilford Woodruff
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as… — Donald Hall
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why,… — Bruno Rossi
Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… — P.J. O'Rourke
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. — Sharon Salzberg
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change… — Bruce D. Perry
The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements… — David Ogilvy
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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