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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
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have done an every-night gig in Hong Kong because I was there for almost 16 years, and in Manila, Philippines, I did gigs there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
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- Nov 07, 2020