- Politics
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
- Fundamental Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
- Institution
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020