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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until… — Gottfried Leibniz
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.… — Hyrum W. Smith
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can… — Carl Jung
Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other… — Paul H. Dunn
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.… — Hyrum W. Smith
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have… — Peter Block
Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision… — Neale Donald Walsch
Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's… — Judith Perelman Rossner
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view… — Alexander Kotov
We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back. — Hanna Rosin
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which… — Sheri S. Tepper
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of… — Wendy Doniger
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,… — Malaclypse the Younger
An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of… — Unknown Author
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges… — Dan Meyer
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. — Knute Rockne
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to… — Glenn Close
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. — Gilbert Murray

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