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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
If I'm DJing a show, I will normally wear the designer I'm DJing for; if I'm DJing a party, I will most likely be wearing very high heels.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
I don't know that we ever overcome doubt. We just have to remember that it's more than likely a poodle in the bushes and not a grizzly bear.
It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.
Will Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who likely will soon become king of his country, use his power to bring peace to the world around him?
A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.
You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
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.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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.
I take laser tag incredibly seriously. I am an extremely competitive person - most likely a little over the top at times, but that's just who I am.
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.
I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
Nations that use commodity capitalism as a stepping-stone to a mixed economy based on commodity/intellectual capitalism will most likely become rich.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.
Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
A startup is not just about the idea: it's about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.