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• Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Deployment, Weapons, Nuclear

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

  Friedrich Engels

  Law, Giving, Independence

  "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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• The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Numbers, Finite Number

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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• Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

  Randall Jarrell

  Class, Magazines, Irony

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" (p. 70), 1980.

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• The #‎ Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Lying, Responsibility, Destiny

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• What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now.

  Julian Barbour

  Country, Thinking, Special

  "The End of Time". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. August 15, 1999.

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• Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

  William Barrett

  Anxiety, Feelings, Uncanny

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• Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!

  Shraddha Kapoor

  Cheating, Men, Mind

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• Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Issues, Keys

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• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Determination, Sight, Discovery

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• I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Believe, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

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• ... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Needs, Position

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment”, p.574, First Avenue Editions

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• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Art, Philosophy, August

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Space, Research

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

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• The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Imagination, Use, Actors

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• Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

  George Matthew Adams

  Doors, Views, Mind

  "Up: A Little Book of Talks on how to Wake Up, Get Up, Think Up, Climb Up, Smile Up, Cheer Up, Work Up, Look Up, Help Up, Grow Up!".

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• Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Action, Ends, Accumulation

  Napoleon Hill, J Goldenberg (2016). “Think and Grow Rich: 2016 Special Edition”, p.122, Money Books

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• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Focus, Remember

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• Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

  Katharine McPhee

  New York, Broadway, Classic

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• The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

  Shamcey Supsup

  Standards, Standards Of Beauty

  FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 10, 2011

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• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

  Edward Carpenter

  Years, Ideas, Shapes

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Pain, Pressure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Two, People

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• Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Rights, President

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

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• Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Math, Choices, Merit

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