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It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead. Jay Leno
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order. Kurt Vonnegut
When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife. Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it. Any dialogue with the sinner, any question of the irreversibility of his act, only means faltering and failure. Failure to eliminate evil is itself a defeat. Anything that even remotely risks such defeat is in itself capitulation to evil. The irreversibility of evil then reaches out to contaminate even the... Thomas Merton
Walter Martin quote: "Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive,..."
Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false. Walter Martin
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our... Henry David Thoreau
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith."
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. Elizabeth Gilbert
Arthur Miller quote: "The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite..."
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone... Arthur Miller
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost. Milan Kundera
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I..."
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died. Steve Allen
I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order. Julio Cortazar
Lewis Carroll quote: "The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters."
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. Lewis Carroll
Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him. Marvin J. Ashton
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of... Peter De Vries

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