“ Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis, best suited to open the way, to the next better one. ”
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“ Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ”
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“ Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ”
- Jane Taylor- Copy
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“ Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money. ”
- Alexandre ‘the Younger’ Dumas- Copy
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“ Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. ”
- Michael Crichton- Copy
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“ When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ On the other hand, we as Iraqi Kurds, we envision our interests within a unified democratic Iraq, in which we contribute to the government in Baghdad. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. ”
- Andrew Morton- Copy
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“ The burden is on Iraq to demonstrate its absolute and authoritative commitment to cooperation. ”
- Thomas Pickering- Copy
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“ Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. ”
- John Lancaster Spalding- Copy
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“ Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became ''real'' according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: ''I swallow it, therefore it is… ”
- Florence King- Copy
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“ The clichT that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies. ”
- Patricia Meyer Spacks- Copy
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“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements is a definite symptom of maturity. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
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“ Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. ”
- David Sarnoff- Copy
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“ A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way. ”
- John McDonald- Copy
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
- Charles Sanders Peirce- Copy
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“ Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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