- History
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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
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
- Barbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020