- 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
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
- Discharge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
- Nov 07, 2020
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020