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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
- Herbert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
- Aggressor
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
- Direct Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020