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"When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him." »R. A. Lafferty
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"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person." »Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." »Thomas Paine
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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning." »Robert Collier
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"Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance." »George Eliot
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity." »Herbert Spencer
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"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity." »Paul Johannes Tillich
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"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning." »George Bernard Shaw
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"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time." »Rebecca West
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber
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"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." »Tench Coxe
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action." »Napoleon Hill
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"It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes..." »Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
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"What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us." »President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio
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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs." »Saturday Review
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." »Albert Einstein
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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