Defined Quotes

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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
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. — A. P. Herbert
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a… — Eduardo Galeano
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead… — Naomi Judd
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow… — Simon Conway Morris
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying… — Kevin Costner
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists. — Calvin S. Hall
Who we are is really defined by the work we put out. — David Berkowitz
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires… — Walter Lippmann
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art — Lee Simonson
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which… — Gaston Bachelard

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