- Fruit
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
- Emergency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Guise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment were undoubtedly aware that the right they were establishing carried a risk of misuse, and States have considerable latitude to regulate the exercise of the right in ways that will minimize that risk. But States may not seek to reduce the danger by curtailing the right itself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good garden may have some weeds.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020