- Politics
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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
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
- Bad One
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020