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The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and… — Eric Hoffer
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.… — Mark Twain
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the… — Mark Twain
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps… — Mark Twain
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. — Samuel Johnson
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. — Howard Pyle
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult… — Alan Greenspan
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems… — Alan Greenspan
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more… — Thomas Sowell
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that… — Brian Tracy
Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on… — Christopher Isherwood
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated… — Bergen Evans
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother… — Frank Pittman
Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can… — Pema Chodron
What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they… — Joshua Reynolds
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. — Robert Henri
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he… — Northrop Frye
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as… — Anthony Storr

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