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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals. ↗

— Tracy Austin

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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. ↗

— John Avlon

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People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play. ↗

— Roy Ayers

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Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. ↗

— David Bailey

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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