Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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