- Numbers
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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
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
- Nov 07, 2020
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
- Blotted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of propaganda that contaminates a discussion around what we should do about pipelines, how our economy may or may not be dependent on exports of raw bitumen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I listen to the whole thing and it may be five or six days before I even realize what the song's about.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020