“Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.”

“You mean being and not being, and likeness and unlikeness, and same and different, and one and any other number they have.”

“As Socrates emphasizes, it is possible for sensible things to partake of both likeness and unlikeness, and hence be both like and unlike.”

“Yet there is a final wail of despair at the unlikelihood of any change for good being effected.”

“The market research described above confirms the unlikelihood of such replacement.”

“When we consider this and the unlikelihood of producers getting another job, it means they may lose their farm.”

“The unlikeliness of all this was heightened by the fact that Mangan was a yuppie.”

“I know of an example of this happening in life, but the casting here tended to emphasise its unlikeliness.”

“Apart from the sheer unlikeliness of this, I think Johann Hari's vision of salvation through rationality is an illusion itself, and a profound mis-reading of human nature.”

“Despite many unlikenesses, the nineteenth century was strangely reminiscent of the Periclean age.”