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However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by… — George Washington
That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when… — Nora Roberts
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And… — Steve Jobs
When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong. — Jodi Picoult
Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments. — Christine Feehan
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb… — Ellen Hopkins
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done… — Jostein Gaarder
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly… — Rene Descartes
In real life things donâ€™t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks… — Haruki Murakami
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary… — John Stuart Mill
It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural.… — Holly Black
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority… — Edward Abbey
Weâ€™re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and weâ€™re not likely to do either. — John Green
I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other… — Cassandra Clare
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… — Michael Lewis
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going,… — Franz Kafka
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion… — Thomas Hardy
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… — Howard Zinn
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of… — Stephenie Meyer
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. — Christopher Paolini

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