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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Definite
Evolution
Know
Proceeds
Vague
If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
You
People
Events
Looking
Definite
Had
Like
Very
Them
Plan
Who
Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina Aguilera
Mother
Think
Other
Way
Definite
Would
Would-Be
Singer
Comfortable
Juggling
Any
Any Other Way
Being
Act
Actress
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
Christopher Buckley
Women
Sometimes
Think
Cindy
Definite
Emerged
McCain
Happens
Fifties
Early
Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
Colleen Atwood
Class
Group
Define
Definite
Besides
Dress
Attempt
Had
Styles
Trying
Different
Much
Across
Body
Different Styles
Each
Species
Suit
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
Count Basie
Jazz
Punch
Kick
Those
Definite
Had
Course
Understand
Real
Smoothly
Loud
Wanted
Tunes
Pop
Naturally
Pops
Fast
Play
Played
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
Dana Carvey
Me
Business
Change
Balance
Personality
Focus
Narcissism
Difficult
Complete
Definite
Definitely
Total
Having
Having Children
Very
Being
Children
Sea
Sea Change
Hard
Show
Show Business
Dad
Found
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
David Hilbert
Problem
Mind
Vain
Definite
Seeks
Having
He
Part
Most
Without
Methods
Who
Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.
Deana Carter
Experience
Live
Our
Definite
Since
Show
Extension
Albums
It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.
Devin Townsend
People
Think
Lying
Relate
Definite
Claim
Self-Loathing
Self-Love
Lot
Lack
Just
Either
Place
Really
Hard
Who
Foster
In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is from North Sydney, and you can't understand a thing he's saying, or Glace Bay or wherever.
Diego Klattenhoff
Funny
Saying
You
Definite
Bay
Some
Guy
He
Accents
Because
Understand
Go
North
Wherever
Down-Home
Nova
Nova Scotia
Thing
Sydney
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
Edward Forbes
Time
Knowledge
Space
Organic
Our
Definite
Moreover
Remains
Well
Geographical
Geological
Repeated
Existence
Centralization
Us
Teaches
Species
There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.
Elaine Stritch
Nothing
Lasting
Definite
About
Theater
Certainly
Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding!
Elana Meyers
Alone
First
Own
Difficult
Cold
Definite
Dress
No Idea
Had
Idea
How
Doing
Up
Shock
Southern
Handle
Being
Warm
Coat
Standpoint
Even
Compete
Started
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
Emile Durkheim
Constitution
Society
State
Definite
Definitely
Possessing
Circumstances
Moral
Constantly
Disturbance
Mental
Only
Individual
Through
Taken
Maintain
Him
Himself
Equally
Causes
Surprise
His
Lacks
Organized
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
Definite
Exactly
Ability
Proportional
Writers
Main
Does
Exist
Literature
Social
Use
Function
Vacuum
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
Francis William Aston
Long
Definite
Drawn
Atomic
General
Hydrogen
Fact
Could
Weight
Weights
Particular
Known
Greater
Chemical
Conclusions
Were
Been
Nor
Than
Any
Explain
Helium
Need
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
Fritz Sauckel
Life
Love
Today
Politics
Attitude
Me
Political
Problems
Despised
Definite
Take
Towards
Forced
Although
Sailor
Still
Conditions
Up
Loved
I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
Gary Lineker
Day
World
Sit
Think
Side
Definite
Would
Wrote
Around
Always
Been
Cups
While
Interested
Used
England
Media
Travelled
World Cups
Away
Things
Copy
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
Gary Wolf
Life
Experience
Our
Extremely
Complex
Definite
Mutations
Life Experience
Fooling
Arising
Environment
Between
Genes
Around
Mice
Traits
Taught
Interactions
Interest
Us
Products
Many
Specific
Phenomena
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
Gillian Jacobs
Frustration
Sleeping
Definite
Out
Folded
Would
Some
Had
New
Liked
Sort
Bed
Auditioning
Years
York
New York
Being
Much
Working
Paid
Chair
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Hannah Arendt
Political
Thought
Beginning
Believe
Our
Definite
Marx
Had
Aristotle
Came
Tradition
End
Karl
Karl Marx
Theories
Teachings
Less
Plato
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
Sometimes
Definite
Something
Writer
Became
Wonder
Happened
Successful
Reason
Novelist
Now
Why
Right
Career
Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined.
Howard Jacobson
Finished
Nothing
Definite
Determined
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
Jacques Audiard
Definite
Dream
Abstract
Film
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber
Me
Face
Definite
Paragraphs
Structure
Developed
Sixty
Sentence
Hardening
Staring
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