- Gravitational
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vitello tonnato is a classic dish from Italy's Piedmont region that, frankly, sounds patently insane: veal slices dressed in a creamy sauce made from canned tuna and capers. The brain may say no, but the mouth disagrees.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a deep, winelike character.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trout fishing in the lochs of Scotland, your catch may end up like this: batter-crusted with that ubiquitous Scottish staple, oats; and served beside a generous mound of stovies, Scottish slang for stove-roasted potatoes.
- Cocktail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.
- Nov 07, 2020
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- Aptly
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- Nov 07, 2020