Morris Kline Quotes
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one: firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.
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I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
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I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.
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I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
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Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.
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Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
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It is said, in fact, that the definition of a white South African is “someone who would rather be murdered in their bed than make it.”
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My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
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The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!
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There is no rigorous definition of rigor.
