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“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.”

Trying Firsts May Book Definitions Deny Defined Rest Of Your Life Define You

Book:The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Source: The Path to the Nest of Spiders

“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.”

Men May Opinion Anger Defined Bigotry Bigots

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.”

May Made Self Might Defined Engines Nurture Coal Pits Steam Assimilation Steam Engines

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.”

Men May Book Defined Rereading

Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.”

May Economic Theory Development Method Observation Defined Analysis Related Appropriate Inference Econometrics

Author:Paul Samuelson

“A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.”

Way May Littles Definitions Defined Informing

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke