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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency… — Mary Roach
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. — Robert Frost
Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not. — Daniel Gilbert
A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned. — L.A. Meyer
Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that… — Elizabeth Strout
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may… — Surya Das
Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend… — Jeanette Winterson
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's… — Richard P. Feynman
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns,… — Dean Karnazes
Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know? — John Green
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias — John Derbyshire
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is… — Herman E. Daly
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those… — Craig Ferguson
God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or… — Julia Cameron
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman,… — Juliet Marillier
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever… — Jane Austen
But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch. It was Dimitri.… — Richelle Mead
If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he… — Karen Marie Moning
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what… — Jeanette Winterson
...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had… — Elizabeth Strout
Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was… — Stephen King
Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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