#definition

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. ↗

— Georges Braque

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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ↗

— Alan Bennett

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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#clear #definition #i #man #marriage

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help. ↗

— Steve Perry

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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. ↗

— John Yoo

#congress #conversation #definition #go #infliction

'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#meaning #mysticism #change

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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