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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone… — Michele Bachmann
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people… — Michele Bachmann
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can… — Jean Baudrillard
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it… — Saul Bellow
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will… — Wendell Berry
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the… — Donald Berwick
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is… — Annie Besant
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. — Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood… — Ambrose Bierce
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. — Phillips Brooks
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. — Dan Brown
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan

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