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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Russell Lynes A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Carl Sagan An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
    (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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