#definitions

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humour #legal-system #parenting

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#tact #wit #wit

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#behind #body #comes #concern #conform

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#depression #recession #slogan #job

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#almost #am #care #definitions #forced

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#different #diplomacy #open #part #self-interest

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#definitions #manhood #west

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#definition #definitions #different #other #people

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do? ↗

— Joshua Braff

#funny #funny

Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevailing doctrines about Darwinian theory is 'Man, that thing is just a mess. It's like looking into a room full of smoke.' Nothing in the theory is precisely, clearly, carefully defined or delineated. It lacks all of the rigor one expects from mathematical physics, and mathematical physics lacks all the rigor one expects from mathematics. So we're talking about a gradual descent down the level of intelligibility until we reach evolutionary biology. ↗

— David Berlinski

#biology #clarity #darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution