#definition

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

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My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #lost #match #never #playing

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#anybody #anything #convince #definition #i

Avant-garde is French for bullshit ↗

— John Lennon

#definitions #art

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#away #become #brings #consistently #definition

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

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By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ↗

— Dan Brown

#be true #cannot #definition #faith #imagine

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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