"We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes."

-- I. A. Richards

#Mean Quotes #Bars Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”
“There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.”
“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
“I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.”

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“English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”

Source : Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press
“I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Source : Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro
“Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'”

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