- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitive Quotes
When is definitive actually earned?
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- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's the argument on climate change.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020