- I Am
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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.
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- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
- Equal Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
- Nov 07, 2020
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.
- Crumbs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I delve into cold cases by scouring the Internet for any digital crumbs authorities may have overlooked, then share my theories with the 8,000 or so mystery buffs who visit my blog regularly.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may be humble out of pride.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020