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  • To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Herbert Spencer Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Herbert Spencer Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Winston Churchill If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thorstein Veblen In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Susan Sontag The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Herbert Spencer The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Stephen Hawking The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emma Goldman To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Eric Butterworth While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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