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Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.