Quotes 41 till 60 of 143.
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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
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If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
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If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.
Year to Success -
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 92 -
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
The Architecture of Happiness -
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
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It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
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