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  • George Eliot Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ann Coulter Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Campbell Brown Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brad Delson Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Solomon Short Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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  • Bethenny Frankel Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Brendan Behan New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Hoff One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
    The Tao of Pooh
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Alan Dundes Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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