- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
- Nov 07, 2020
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
- Amino Acid
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- Nov 07, 2020
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
- Nov 07, 2020
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020