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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
May

"A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in."

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Lydia Davis Author
May

"I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
May

"The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously."

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Pharrell Williams Musician, Producer
May

"There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
May

"On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways."

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Ada Leverson Author
May

"All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
May

"I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
May

"That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
May

"Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
May

"We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation."

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