A Quote by Hans Christian von Baeyer
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
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Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
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In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.
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The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
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A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.
The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
