- Person
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
- Nov 07, 2020
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
- Nov 07, 2020
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
- Salvation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020