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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett

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My definition of success is control.
Success
Kenneth Branagh

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Wish and Wishing
Phillips Brooks

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Government
Albert Camus

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Individuality
Arthur Koestler

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Laughter is by definition healthy.
Laughter
Doris Lessing

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
Uncategorised
Abraham Lincoln

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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Gentlemen
Cardinal J. Newman

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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Manners
John Henry Newman

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Madness
Ezra Pound

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
Hell
George Bernard Shaw

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Wisdom
Socrates

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Style
Jonathan Swift

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Youth
Alfred North Whitehead

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun