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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier

(first address in the House of Lords, 1971) I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy`s been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it`s probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

- David Kennedy

I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you`d regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.

- John Mallory Asher

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB -- as is probable -- accepts a request by the SEC to look into FAS87, the U.S. (pension) standard,

- Andrew Roberts

I do have to earn a living, so I`m conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I`m not enjoying a story, the reader won`t either.

- Thomas Perry

They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and antiquity constitute strong evidence of modern-human emergence in Africa,

- Timothy W. White

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

- Alan Rodger

Before beginning I should put in three years of intensive study, and I haven`t that much time to squander on a probable failure.

- Alan Saporta

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

- Albert Newgarden

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

- Allison Gollust

A person`s mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

- Amy Larson

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

- Andrew Beard

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

- Andrew Nelson

At this time, have been unable to arrive at a probable cause of this sighting. The three observers seem to be stable, reliable persons, especially the two patrolmen. I viewed the area and found nothing in the area that could be the probable cause.

- Andrew Tencleve

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it`s too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

- Ann Hurley

I would say to my colleagues, do we want to subject them to the horrors of war in our own country? ... That`s why I have this resolve. I think it`s highly probable that that would happen if we don`t act.

- Aviya Kushner

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier, Sir