- End
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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
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020