Definitions Quotes

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours. — Alan Rickman
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce
My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups.… — Bill O'Reilly
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. — Noam Chomsky
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits,… — Bill Maher
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms… — Unknown Author
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. — John Henry Patterson
The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. — Ambrose Bierce
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is… — Hermann Bondi
Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved. — Unknown Author
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What… — Unknown Author
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us. — Michael Pollan
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. — Michael Kinsley
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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