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• [Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

  Gretl Braun

  People, Charm, Knows

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• This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Comforting, Contradictory, Chosen

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

  Cindy Gerard

  Cuddling, Legs, Bed

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.329, Macmillan

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• I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.

  Andy Murray

  Couple, Mean, Space

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

  David Hilbert

  Science, Mind, Problem

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• I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Writing, Character

  "If Music Be the Food of Love, Play on, Rufus Wainwright". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. June 25, 2016.

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• There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

  Rashida Jones

  Responsibility, Dresses, Looks

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Darkness, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Successful, Careers, Novelists

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  Yoko Ono

  Book, Thinking, Cities

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• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound

  Vacuums, Doe, Use

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• I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

  Carl Jung

  Foundation, Add, Judgment

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• If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

  Tim Jackson

  Technology, Internet, Possibility

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• I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

  Van Morrison

  Records, Periods, Wanted

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Feet, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.

  Edith Starr Miller

  Order, Evil, Mind

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• We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Thinking, Endless

  Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

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• And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Tree, Atmosphere

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• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.29, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Color White, Shining

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• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

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• Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

  John Wooden

  Games, Play, Defense

  "VIEWS OF SPORT; John Wooden: Basketball Is Fouling Out". New York Times interview, www.nytimes.com. August 20, 1989.

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• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Law, Way

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• Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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