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• The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Law, Way

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• White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Color White, Shining

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• We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Ideas, Racist

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• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  Hannah Arendt

  Plato, Believe, Teaching

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.30, Penguin

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• As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Running, Men, Growing

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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. 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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, Mind, Doing Nothing

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Past, Atmosphere

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• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

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• I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Way, Artistic

  "Will Ferrell: The Comedian Reflects". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 14, 2011.

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• My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

  Greta Garbo

  Fall, Thinking, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

  Robert Mayer

  Science, Light, Action

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• I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, New Experiences

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

  Peter Steele

  Inspirational, Softball, Hate

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• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Atheism, Matter

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “First Principles: Great Philosopher”, p.304, 北戴河出版

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• I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fog, Careers, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Mean, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Upset, Transition, Way

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Ill give you a definite maybe.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Giving, Ill

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, War, Loss

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• Have a definite opinion.

  William Safire

  Opinion

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• Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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