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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… — Claude Bernard
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. — Francis Crick
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think… — Stephen Hawking
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… — Bertrand Russell
If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums,… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody… — Theodore Dreiser
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. — Alexander Hamilton
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. — Stanley Gault
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back.… — Jack Handey
I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light… — Edward Burne-Jones
All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to… — Joo Won
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how… — Tamar Jacoby
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the… — Amelia B. Edwards
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become… — Kenneth Tynan
We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as:… — Werner Erhard
We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines… — Werner Erhard

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