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#definitions

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


H.L. Mencken


#definitions #ethics #humor #humor

Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.


George Bernard Shaw


#drinking #life

Duty is what one expects from others.


Oscar Wilde


#duty #life #life

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

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

contiguous, adj. I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain. "When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are." For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered. "Contiguous." And I knew you understood.


David Levithan


#definitions #love #relationships #love

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence


H.L. Mencken


#love #imagination

Tears are words the heart can't express


Gerard Way


#life #love #life

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

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.


Frank Dobson


#definitions #manhood #west






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