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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
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each political party in America contains people with a hodgepodge of beliefs. Their given positions on a topic may shift slightly - or drastically - from year to year or day to day.
- Fatality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.
- Habitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020