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For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage… — Nathaniel Branden
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources. — Brian Herbert
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself… — Hugh Massingberd
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not… — Moss Hart
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. — Mary Douglas
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork… — Neil Gershenfeld
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. — Raymond Arroyo
Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to… — Francis Crick
White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a… — Tim DeKay
We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at… — Robert Fortune
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. — Isaac Asimov
So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely… — Neil Finn
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm… — Hari Kunzru
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details,… — Alexander Kluge
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly… — Elliott Abrams
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies… — Elliott Abrams
Unlikely things are often true . . . — Sheridan Hay
No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will… — G. H. Hardy
The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or… — Stephen Elop
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so… — Quentin Crisp
Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely. — Peter Weir

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