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A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless… — Charles Spurgeon
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade… — Alan Cranston
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I… — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness! — Jackie Kennedy
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers… — James A. Baldwin
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays... — Glenn Reynolds
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. — David Dellinger
But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by… — Carter Heyward
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need… — Elie Wiesel
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. — Abdul Kalam
The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external… — Tony Hsieh
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination… — John F. Kennedy
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. — Saul Bellow
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why… — Ingrid Newkirk
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a… — Ayn Rand
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. — James Bovard
There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind… — M.F.K. Fisher
Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
... life, by definition, is never still. — Kurt Vonnegut
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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