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At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important… — Aravind Adiga
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for… — Harry Browne
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. — Peter Mandelson
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there… — Boris Johnson
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if… — Robert Greene
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. — C.S. Lewis
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving… — Howard Dean
When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip. — James Rollins
The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would. — Jane Pauley
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it. — Joseph P. Farrell
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more… — Joyce Brothers
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because… — Arthur Caplan
The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that… — Ian Wilmut
I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest. — Tony Hayward
Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and… — Nancy Gibbs
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is… — George Eldon Ladd
If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect. — Todd Duncan
Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become… — Jane Goodall
If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency,… — Bill Cosby
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler… — Henry David Thoreau
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera

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