- Purpose
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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
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020