- Nov 07, 2020
Some Quotes
Small word, wide range of thought.
This page gathers quotes that turn on the word "some" — a small qualifier that shows up everywhere from filmmakers talking about creative limits to reflections on real historical friction, including the 1962 border war fought over disputed Himalayan terrain. If you're also drawn to broader affirmations, the Good quotes collection covers similar ground from another angle.
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- Discharge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
- Colony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020