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• This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

  Saint Peter

  Jesus, Men, Hands

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• I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Fans, Bigger, Huge

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• I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots of things that by now are almost taken for granted were heretical in the 1960s. We had anti-sodomy laws until not many years ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Categories, Neglected

  "Spanx Dallas Grand Opening: Exclusive interview with Sara Blakely". Interview with Natalie Keinan, www.thefashionhour.com. July 9, 2014.

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• The psychic phenomena and the number of people involved in psychic phenomena is rising at just an incredible rate - that's a definite indication of the fourth dimension. But it's also a very dangerous time.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Psychics, Numbers, People

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Live Life, Grandparent, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Winning, White

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fate, Men, Joy

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• I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Mistake, Decision

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• I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wine, Training, World

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Sports, Decide Upon, Choices

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• Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

  Napoleon Hill

  Nature, Goal, House

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.101, Penguin

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• God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

  John Henry Newman

  Saint, Serving Others, Missions

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.338, Ignatius Press

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• The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

  George Santayana

  Progress, May, Evolution

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Persistence, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.27, Penguin

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• If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Desire, Form, Ifs

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• When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Infinite Intelligence, Two

  "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity".

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• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Science, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Data, May

  "Geological Reform". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.

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• Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

  Philip Guedalla

  Easter, Fiction, Biographies

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• Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Language, Colorless, Assertion

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Mean, Waiting, Weakness

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