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«Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.»
Author: Evan Esar
| About:
Statistics
| Keywords:
definition, figures, producing, reliable, unreliable
«God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
conceive, conceives, conceiving, definition
«Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
define, definition, ends, fair, fairs, getting even, get up, morning
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
allowed, counties, county, definition, desk, desks, hello, hellos, library, not allowed, rattle, rattled, rattle off, reference, references, spell, swear, swear off, with reference to
«If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
accepted, brave, bravery, definition, frightened, generally, generally accepted, intelligent, No Fear, quality
«From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.»
«Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American, American President, American Presidents, automatically, definition, disqualified, prepared, President, run for, The American President
«By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
conscience, definition, Nothing More, No Policy, our policy, policy, this policy
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
definition, establish, obedience, organized, secures, The Question
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