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Likely Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- 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…
- People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary…
- If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in… — Michael Badnarik
- Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time. — Bob Beauprez
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a… — Brendan Behan
- Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to… — Tony Blair
- Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges
- A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy… — Robert Bork
- Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain
- I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was… — Jo Brand