- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
- Special
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020