"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
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"A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class."
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"Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy."
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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."
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"If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success."
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"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others."
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"We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one."
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"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
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"The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions."
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"The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality."
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"Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer."
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"The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers."
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"If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith."
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"Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark."
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"The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis."
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"Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness."
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"We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue."
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"Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom"
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"By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon"
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