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• As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Writing, Style, Idiom

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.

  David Korten

  Caring, Should Have, People

  "The Big Picture". "Fixing the Future" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org.

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• I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Musical Ability, Talent, Conclusion

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki (1995). “Suzuki Harp School - Volume 1: Harp Part”, p.4, Alfred Music

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• The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Italian, Toronto, Eating

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• Definite speech means clarity of mind.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Mind, Speech

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain”, p.402, Bantam Classics

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• A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Views, Purpose

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• I have not the most definite designs on the future.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Future, Design, Dogma

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

  Ben Hecht

  Girl, Children, Eye

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Sweet, Art, Knowing

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• The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.

  Joshua Harris

  Home, Technology, Challenges

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Retaining our capacity for reason
  is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

  H. E Davey

  Common Sense, Belief, Moments

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• I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.

  Mike Royer

  New York, Artist, Years

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Safety, Imagination, Boards

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• I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

  Wes Craven

  Years, Feelings, Guilt

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

  Axl Rose

  Healing, Thinking, Giving

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• What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Believe, Other Worlds

  "Herbert Hoover: A Good President Who Got a Bad Rap?". www.wnd.com. October 19, 2017.

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• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.194, Vintage

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• If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Roots, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Village, Bread

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Expression, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  William Bennett

  Needs, May, Too Much

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book by William Bennett, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1993.

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• A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Baby, Children, Opportunity

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• One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Discovery, Pace

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.269, VM eBooks

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