#def

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. ↗

— John Bolton

#budget #defense #department #excuse #fraud

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. ↗

— Paul Begala

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. ↗

— Tony Benn

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It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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