#definition

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

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Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told. ↗

— Ana Patrick

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COOL·NESS [KOOL-NIS] -noun CATCHING your mom gazing at the crazy crowd like she finally gets it WATCHING your dad head-banging like he’s Finn’s twin brother LEARNING that your new friends Tash and Kallie are a thousand times more complicated than you realized, and loving them for it FEELING every one of your boyfriend’s pounding drumbeats, and thinking it’s the most romantic music ever written REALIZING you’re completely unique . . . even in a crowd ↗

— Antony John

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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

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

— Georges Braque

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

— Wilhelm Reich

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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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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional. ↗

— Donald Berwick

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