- Must
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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the ballot box, then they may regard disappointment in that as a trigger to initiate other methods of change.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
- Beautiful People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020