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• Es poco probable que ninguno de esos peligros naturales acabe con nosotros en los próximos 100 años si ya hemos sobrevivido a 100.000. Por el contrario, estamos introduciendo, a través de la actividad humana, tipos de peligros totalmente nuevos mediante el desarrollo de nuevas y potentes tecnologías. No tenemos constancia de que hayamos sobrevivido a ellos.

  Nick Bostrom

  Potente, Tecnología, Años

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• Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

  D. A. Carson

  Pain, Mistake, Play

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Exegetical Fallacies”, p.9, Baker Books

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• In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

  Max Tegmark

  Space, Events, Infinite

  "Parallel Universes". Scientific American magazine. Volume 288, Issue 5, May 2003.

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• The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Impact, People

  Gwynne Dyer (2010). “Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats”, p.8, Oneworld Publications

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Odds, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Discovery, Transition, Cases

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• Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

  Ovid

  Swim, Hook, Fishes

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• Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Feelings, Forget

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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?

  Epictetus

  Men, Shells, Should

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book I, Chapter 20,

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• If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

  Bruce Kovner

  Traders, Hard, Ifs

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• Si no puedes alegrarte ante la perspectiva de comer, es poco probable que te alegres por nada.

  Robert Johnson

  Lunch, Ifs

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). "Tribus: We Need You to Lead Us", p.63, Penguin

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• Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Art, Dark, Japan

  Stephen K. Hayes (2011). “The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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• Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

  Ashley Kahn

  Art, Lying, Rocks

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• For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Perseverance, Children, Struggle

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• En el fragor de la batalla surgen héroes, a veces de las fuentes más insospechadas.

  Brian Herbert

  Hero, Battle, Heat

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad", p.353, Macmillan

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• A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Neat, Multiple

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• So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

  Neil Finn

  Hero, Thinking, Stranger

  "New Zealand's Neil Finn: 'I'm a lifer" By Ayesha Lawrence, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2004.

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• Algunos libros los he conservado porque la encuadernación es preciosa: es poco probable que llegue a leer el ejemplar de mi abuela de "La vida de Lord Nelson". Soy adicto a las librerías de segunda mano.

  Hari Kunzru

  Bella, Libro, Abuela

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• Al igual que el telescopio o el teléfono, la televisión nos permite ver u oír cosas que nunca habíamos soñado. Cuando nos fijamos en los detalles, una escena concreta entre personas es en realidad algo increíblemente inverosímil, algo sutil que requiere una extensa descripción.

  Alexander Kluge

  Gente, Detalles, Looks

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• The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Exercise, Men, Two

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• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

  Elliott Abrams

  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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• The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

  Stephen Elop

  People, Office, Majority

  "The phone is the key to everything: Microsoft now owns Nokia's device business" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. April 25, 2014.

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• The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

  Robert Fortune

  Firsts, Facts, Speak

  Robert Fortune (1847). "Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Incluyendo una visita a los países del té, la seda y el algodón; con un relato de la agricultura y la horticultura de los chinos, nuevas plantas, etc", p.85

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