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“Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.”
“Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.”
“Some may argue that we shouldn't shelter our children. We should let them see and experience the sins that are all around us. By keeping the children unaware, they say, we are preventing the development of their defenses. I disagreed. We have our whole lives to experience the ugliness, our whole lives to grapple with society's misplaced priorities. Trying to give a child a childhood was nothing to be ashamed of.”
Source: Little Boy Lost
“Some may be, and probably millions have been, reformed, through kindness, through gratitude--made better in the sunlight of charity. In the atmosphere of kindness the seeds of virtue burst into bud and flower. Cruelty, tyranny, brute force, do not and cannot by any possibility better the heart of man.”
“Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Some may be more fortunate than others, and many might feel more like second bests, not sure how to survive. Not seeing the light on their path, they keep on living with fear. Albeit social security systems may be supportive existential anxiety subsists, crushing their identity. Only by converting 'fear' into a challenge, we can grit our teeth, strengthen resilience, and brighten up the dimness in our minds. ("A new life with Schengen"")”
“Some may be surprised to learn that there is this side to Professor Milner's life. But it is a mistake to believe that plain women are more or less celibate. The error is common, since in the popular mind - and especially in the media - the idea of sex is linked with the idea of beauty.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“Some may be surprised to learn that there is this side to Professor Miner’s life. But it is a mistake to believe that plain women are more or less celibate. The error is common, since in the popular mind—and especially in the media — the idea of sex is linked with the idea of beauty.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“Some may believe we're on the road to the Hitler youth.”
“Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.”
“Some may call it foolish, but at my age, when you love someone, you move to the rhythm of your own heart—life is too short to worry about how the shape & size of one’s love appears to the rest of the world.”
“Some may call you crazy if you try to reason with a dog. It is with desperate attempts that you hope they understand you. When the realization sinks in that your futile pleading goes without understanding or care, you are left with no choice but to think of the next best thing. From Finally Home: Lessons on Life from a Free-Spirited Dog”
“Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.”
Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science
“Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love”
“Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future.”
“Some may feel that no criticism can be made of real religious Faith, and this is true, it is the folly of the faith in dogmatic authority that is at issue really, and needs only the memory of Galileo to serve as an example, though there are countless other examples, particularly in modern political faiths from Liberal laissez-faire to Marxist determinism. In our day it is more the authority of science and reason that has replaced the ecclesiastic authority, though the pendulum is beginning now, in the middle of the twentieth century, to move back towards the equilibrium point, and doubtless, human nature being what it is, will eventually swing to the irrational side, and then back again, and back again, and back again, and back again, until humanity achieves some semblance of permanent balance in its outlook —or even stops being the dupe of external authority.”
Source: Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism
“Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.”
“Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.”
Source: The Pete Seeger Reader
“Some may go so far as to label these pleasures vices, but I would not, for what is a vice after all, but a pleasure with a bad reputation?”
Source: Cuisine is a Dialect, A Leisurely Stroll Through the Edible History of Provincetown
“Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other.”
“Some may have made conclusions about your situation. They may have said you are a loser and will never make it, but with God, you can still announce your triumphant victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Some may jest that I'm a chain smoker. No, I'm not; I just Ignite your memories when I miss you which is quite frequent.”
“Some may loathe you for being too focused on your dreams. Do not let that get to you. Your job is to pursue those dreams until people look up to you. They may not understand your vision now, but they will eventually recognize your breakthrough.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.”
Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.”
Source: Free Culture
“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)”
“Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.”
“Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.”
“Some may say, “How dare you question the Bible. You must be a demon!” This is the reply of those who do not wish to be examined. What they are saying in effect is, “How dare you question my authority!” Know that if someone takes your spirituality, they have taken it with your permission. No one can force you to give your spirituality away.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Some may say I'm perceptive" "And what would you say?" I ask, my voice edgy, tired of being toyed with. "I'd say I agree.”
“Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.”
“Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.”
“Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.”
“Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.”
Source: Chinese Literature
“some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Some may try to destroy you, believing they’ve won, not knowing God used them to guide you to His ordained path. For that, thank them.”
“Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.”
Source: A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
“Some may view BL series as just another genre that tells the love story between two people, but there are still those who are not open-minded and don't fully accept the idea of sexual diversity. Honestly, I wish they would give it a chance because it's quite fun! Nowadays, BL series come in a variety of styles. There are grand productions, stories that cross borders and time, period dramas, etc. The genre has expanded significantly and has become one of Thailand's soft powers.”
“Some may view this book and its title as alarmist. Good. We should be awake to the assault on democratic values that has gathered strength in many countries abroad and that is dividing America at home. The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended, and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.”
“Some may wonder whether part of the harvest of this invisible pollution (electromagnetic radiation) may be the comparative rarity of visionary experience in the modern world, and the predominence of a removed, overanalytical, repelling 'onlooker' intelligence in its place, resembling that of the (Martin) Amis hero (who will not see because he cannot feel). If this is so, such an intelligence has produced conditions favoring its evolution and survival.”
Source: The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
“Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.”
“Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.”
“Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.”
“Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.”
“Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.”