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• a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Growing Up, Squares

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Yield, Light

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• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Mathematics, Embarrassed

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• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
  All had been granted but the thing we beg:
  And still some great unlikely substitute--
  Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
  Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

  Joanna Baillie

  Soul, Favors, Rooms

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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• When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Meaningful, Ice Cream, People

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.

  James Berardinelli

  Summer, Real, Dust

  "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material, from which they are derived, or in the laws, governing their formation.

  Kurt Gödel

  Law, Atmosphere, Body

  "Nature's Imagination". Book by J. Cornwall, p.161-189, 1995.

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• It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

  James MacDonald

  Lying, Would Be, Matter

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.60, Moody Publishers

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• By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Investing, Discounts

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• ... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Injury, Produce

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• You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Attitude, Buddhism

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• Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

  Joseph Lowery

  Moving, Tired, White

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• While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

  Alan Greenspan

  Diversity, Imbalance, Size

  "The mortgage market and consumer debt". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At America’s Community Bankers Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.

  Benjamin Graham

  Smart, Taken, Differences

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• Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

  Peter Weir

  World, Sides, Masters

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• I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

  Brian Molko

  Jesus, Hate, Light

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• War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Peace, War, Literature

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• Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

  Charles Sturt

  Country, Men, Space

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.48

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• I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mind, Predictable

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• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Technology, Skills, Greed

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• As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Allies

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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