- Practice
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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
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.
- Nov 07, 2020
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
- Nov 07, 2020
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Enchanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
- Lessons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020