- Drive
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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
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how one can differentiate between comedies. A burger is a burger and though it may taste differently in different food joints, the fact remains that it is still a burger. It's the same with comedies.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
- Argued
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
- Arresting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020