"To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence."
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"Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale."
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"All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow."
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"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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"Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of these God’s children, and why we believe that the new definition of freedom today is self-determination."
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"The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track."
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"True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world."
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"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
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"My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure."
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"My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God."
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"What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts."
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"1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes."
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"The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible."
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"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
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"I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist."
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"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."
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"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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"When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique."
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
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"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
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