"Just definitions either prevent or put an end…" — Nathanael Emmons

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a… — 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… — Chinua Achebe
• I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every… — Michele Bachmann
• I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the… — 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… — Jean Baudrillard
• Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts… — 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… — Wendell Berry
• Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the… — Donald Berwick

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