- Attractive
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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
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
- Gnawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020