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«Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what?s on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections.»
Author: Elaine N. Aron
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inner world, likely, mention, mentioning, reflections, self-centeredness
«The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(Author, psychiatrist)
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answers, deeply, different, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, feeling, finest, likely, moments, moment of truth, occur, occurring, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, ruts, rutting, searching, start, step, such, truer, uncomfortable, unfulfilled, unhappy, ways
«The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.»
«The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.»
Author: Nathaniel Borenstein
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accident, accidents, agree, come in, computer, destroyed, experts, likely, like an expert, professionals, The Professionals
«What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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alternatively, Boulder, circumstances, consider, crack, cracking, crack up, current, far, get stuck, giant, given, grinding, ground, grounding, ground out, has-been, hope, likely, longer, luckier, luckiest, lucky, move, rescue, rescues, rescuing, seems, so far, stick in, stick on, stick out, stick up, stuck, the sticks, troubling, underneath, under the circumstances
«We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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at one time, connections, countless, familial, likely, one time, parent, reborn
«What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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amiable, cynical, likely, strained, straining
«War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull»
«Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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likely, looking, looking for, searching, seek, surest
«Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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at any rate, boast, boasted, certainly, conscious, extent, likely, neither, only too, quite, rate, rating, seems, This Man, to that extent, to what extent, wiser