Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places."
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Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first."
Robert Johnson
Musician
"If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything"
Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you."
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"It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?"
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"Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless."
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"I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable."
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"We save our lives in such unlikely ways."
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"In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am."
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"It is likely that unlikely things should happen"
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth."
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"How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally."
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"But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us."
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"Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long."
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"It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there."
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"Unlikely things are often true . . ."
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"I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time."
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"Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim."
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