- God
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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
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'
- Common Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
- Chickens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.
- Jogging
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- Nov 07, 2020
For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020