Indefinite Quotes

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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. — Stephen Hawking
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most… — Barack Obama
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA… — Matt Shea
So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for… — Richard Bach
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic… — Victor Hugo
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among… — James Hutton
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. — Eric Butterworth
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the… — Emma Goldman
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no… — Tony Judt
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… — Herbert Spencer
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis

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