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“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”
Vladimir Lenin
“All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.”
Noel Coward
“It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.”
Christina Aguilera
“If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.”
Christopher Hampton
“Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.”
Whitey Herzog
“The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry”
Randall Jarrell
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.”
Denis Diderot
