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“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.”

Wells May Ideas Science Term Imagination Answers Imagine Revolution Confusion Explanation You Choose Vague Catastrophe Stopping Inquiry Obscurity Disadvantages Involving

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.”

May Different Study Structure Caught Fascinating Reincarnation Caught Up Textbooks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.”

May Country Science Nations Judging Amount Prosperity Acid

Book:Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner

“On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.”

May Moving Form Science Universe Numbers Property Scales Observation Assumption Regions Usual Observers Containing Large Scale Homogeneous Homogeneity Nebula

Author:Hermann Bondi

“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”

Knows Mind Wells May House Black Poor Brain Disease Mortals Poison Suspects Suspicion Plague Pestilence

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.”

Knows Way Want Trying May Ends Dream Happens Action Asks Energy Cases Huge Cold Waste What You Want Partners Your Dreams Wasting Time Imaginary Rejected Testing Time And Energy Unreliable

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.”

May Action Courses Causes Virtue Effects Judging Source Spring Mere Deeds Smallest Spring May

Author:Alexander Pope

“Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.”

Way May Dream Might Interesting Study Imagine Danger Industry Lawyer Global Warming Suspects Jury Amused Minimizing Jurors

Author:David Ignatius

“There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.”

World May Persons Jesus Christ Effects Jesus Christ Wave Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.”

Humans May States Politics Results Known Taken Risk Activity Judgment Accounts Criminals Graves Inevitable Human Life Engaging Reckless Disregard Implicit

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.”

Thinking Knows May Use Kids Remember Nations Teacher Unique Tests Score Test Scores

Author:John Merrow

“I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.”

Ifs May Sometimes Wonder Accents Brilliance Fooled Treason

Author:Stephen Fry

“The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.”

People Needs Years May States Lasts America Poor Conditions Majors Percent Built Rivers Killing Bridges Engineers Truck 1960s Vintage American Society Minnesota Civil Engineer Washington State

Author:Ed Rendell

“Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.”

People May Certain Taste Eating Extremes Smell Psychological Disorder Discomfort Texture Eating Disorder Selective Picky

Author:Emily Yoffe

“The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.”

People Ifs Mind May Body Dies Sound Gone Forever Older People

Author:Vy Higginsen

“If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.”

Ifs May Persons Art

Author:Agnes Denes

“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”

Should May Justice Views Agree Grateful Developing Agreement Be Grateful Superficial Superficiality Power Of Thought Things To Be Grateful Superficial Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.”

Humans May Human Beings Rational

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.”

May Different Written Pages Mark Preparation

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.”

Ifs Way Writing May Would Be Wise Down And Scripts Sat Being Wise Flattered

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I'm just not a naturally cheery person. I'm naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.”

People Knows May Persons Wish More Time Moody

Author:Ben Stiller

“I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.”

Thinking May Actors Community Concerned Harder Independent Terrorist Midst Terrorist Attacks Homegrown

Author:Jeh Johnson

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

“May be refined, and join the angelic train.”

May Train Refined Angelic

Book:The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir

Source: The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir

“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”

Source: Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula

“He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.”

May Littles Hot Guilt Contracts Haste Little Time

Book:The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams

Source: The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams

“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.”

Ifs Men May Long Doe Has Beens Said Remember Faces Forget Danger Ready Circumstances Long Time Lays Profit Sentiments

Author:Confucius

“Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.”

May Littles Running Ability Flower Raises Seeds Fables

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.”

Wells May Rounds Neighbor Thee Smooth Blackbirds

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.”

Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

“Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.”

Men May Mean Ends Ears Soldier Quitting Posts This Day Plato

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.”

May Death Stars Clear Sea Bars Evening Sunset Moaning

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.”

May Done Work Moors

Book:Schiller's Complete Works

Source: Schiller's Complete Works

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.”

Men May Done Life Is One Thing Achieve He Man Regret Ambition All Things Things In Life Harvest Reap Barren My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.”

Men Believe May Doe Possibility He Man

Author:Kin Hubbard

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.”

May Mean Self Suffering Violence Stage Errors Pursuit Doctrine Opponents Application Satyagraha Vindication Infliction

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”

Men Should May Mean Blood Capable Opponents Shed Rude Disputes Vindicated Mean Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.”

Ifs World May Evil Ears Responsible Permit Being Responsible

Book:Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma

Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma

“Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.”

“May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.”

May Died Regard Bless God Bless

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.”

May Given Favors Abandon

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.”

Knows May Lord Laughing Love You Do You Know Sense Of Humor

Author:Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.”

Men May Clear Smell Native Lamps Avoided Eloquence Oratory

Author:Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

“An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.”

Should May Art Artist

Book:Curiosities of literature

Source: Curiosities of literature

“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.”

Men May Opinion Anger Defined Bigotry Bigots

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.”

May Important Life Is Wish Sex Serious Madness Be You Mirth Solemnity Neckties

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton