{"quotes":[{"text":"Love is always by definition a choice.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["choice","definition","love"],"id":5263,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["belief","definition","denomination","opinion","perspective","religion","semantics","separation","spirituality","theology","unity"],"id":10649,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","definition","family","identity","life","manager","mother","purpose","self-identity","true-identity","truth","wife"],"id":15112,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.","author":"Ambrose Bierce","tags":["definition","humor"],"id":24555,"author_id":"Ambrose+Bierce"},{"text":"How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["communism","czech","definition","enemy","evil","forgiveness","hate","meaning","novel","peace","structure"],"id":25730,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["amusing","believe","catch-phrase","coining","contrast","definition","difference","different","displayed","ethnic-cleansing","facetious","genocide","homophiliac","homophobic","reprehensible"],"id":30801,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.","author":"National Academy of Sciences","tags":["definition","facts","opinions","science","theories"],"id":35318,"author_id":"National+Academy+of+Sciences"},{"text":"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["definition","doubt","humour","life","uncertainty"],"id":36515,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates; as old as the writer who said, 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good'; it is the foundation of the Reformation, which simply illustrated the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him, it is the great principle of Descartes; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science. Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic position, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.The results of the working out of the agnostic principle will vary according to individual knowledge and capacity, and according to the general condition of science. That which is unproved today may be proved, by the help of new discoveries, tomorrow. The only negative fixed points will be those negations which flow from the demonstrable limitation of our faculties. And the only obligation accepted is to have the mind always open to conviction.That it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["agnostic","agnosticism","belief","definition","descartes","honesty","knowledge","science","socrates","truth"],"id":39579,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","consistence","consistency","consistent","consistently","define","definition","definition-of-success","dont-give-up","dream-big","dreams","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","never-give-up","normal","ordinary","ordinary-people","passion","passionate","people","persist","persistence","persistent","secret","success","successful","successful-people"],"id":40302,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":110,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}