Definition Of Life Quotes

• I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

  Keith Olbermann

  Long, Definitions, Life Is

  Cornell Senior Convocation Speech, May 23, 1998.

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• Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

  Ann Patchett

  Generations, Definitions, Next

  Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

  Paul Ryan

  Ideas, Pro Life, Records

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• I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

  Tom Coburn

  Justice, Definitions, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.

  Cyril Ponnamperuma

  Life, Thinking, Energy

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