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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. ↗

— George G. Simpson

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Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1. ↗

— George Smathers

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

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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

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