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likelihood
«What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade»
Author: Alfie Kohn
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believer, caring, decade, helpful, in all likelihood, likelihood, psychologist, psychologists, sociologist, sociologists, studied, surmise, surmises, virtually
«It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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cowardice, cower, cowering, existed, faithlessness, in all likelihood, likelihood, massive, smallness
«The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct ratio to the intensity with which other try to prove him wrong.»
«The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.»
Author: William Bolitho
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confessed, distracting, in all likelihood, likelihood, practically, professions, pursuits
«It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage (sic) baby even ten years la»
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
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Fear
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brain damage, brain dead, Cancer, cervical, contracting, damage, deter, deterred, deterring, giving birth, incurable, in all likelihood, likelihood, promiscuity, sic, sterility
«The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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Art,
War
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Art of War, attacking, coming, in all likelihood, likelihood, position, readiness, receive, rely, teaches, The Art of War, The Enemy, unassailable
«To build the world we want, America will have to be involved. And the best likelihood comes when America, Britain and Europe are working together.»
«These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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agreeable, colored, commonwealth, commonwealths, dealing, features, footing, in all likelihood, lawless, likelihood, the Commonwealth