"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

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"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

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"We may not know the whole story in our lifetime."

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"I may not be perfect, but I'm trying."

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"But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence."

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"I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

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"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice."

Matthew Henry, English Clergyman

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"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."

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"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases."

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"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

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