- Diamonds
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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.
- Common Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Italy, they are incredibly competitive. It may be that their game is more defensive, but they defend so well; here in Germany, there is more speed and intensity. In England, they are more direct, very box-to-box.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020