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Special Definitions
Non scientifically based definitions are no more than mere points of view. However, experience is behind them all. Let's now see how some famous people define some of the different facets of life.
- Man:
- 'Man is the only Animal that blushes or needs to' ~Mark Twain~
- Human Beings:
- 'Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home' ~Bill Cosby~
- Grammar:
- 'Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.' ~Richard C. Trench~
- Writing:
- 'Writing is a struggle against silence.' ~Carlos Fuentes~
- 'Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.' ~Jules Renard~
- Writer:
- 'A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.' ~Karl Kraus~
- Synonym:
- 'A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.' ~Baltasar Gracián~
- Nostalgia:
- 'Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!' ~Owens Lee Pomeroy~
- Happiness:
- 'Happiness is nothing more that good health and bad memory' ~Albert Schweitzer~
- Pride:
- 'Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues' ~M. C. Collins~
- Democracy:
- 'Democracy means not, I'm as good as you are, but you're as good as I am' ~Theodore Parker~
- Hope:
- 'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper' ~Francis Bacon~
- Gratitude:
- 'Gratitude is the sign of noble souls' ~Proverb~
- Music with dinner:
- 'Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist' ~G. K. Chesterton~
- Politics & War:
- 'Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed' ~Mao Tse-Tung~
- Cynic Person:
- 'A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern' ~Edgar A. Shoaff~
- Journalism:
- 'Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space' ~Rebecca West~
- Television:
- 'Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done' ~Ernie Kovacs~
- Tranquil Mind:
- 'By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered' ~M. A. Antonius~
- Your Friend:
- 'Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you' ~Albert Hubbard~
- Compromise:
- 'A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece' ~Ludwig Erhard~
- ALGEBRA:
- 'ALGEBRA: A weapon of math destruction.'
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