- Injustice
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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
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
- Coin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
- Nov 07, 2020
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
- Irritating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020