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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Almost America Been Behind Colonial Culture Definition Existence Faint Ground High History Leave New Only Ordinary Ordinary People People Period Politics Proving Rather Social Than Traces Unfortunately Which

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Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

~Edward Felten

Topics: Actual Copyright Definition Enforcement Expanding Important Important Part Legal Move Outside Part Picture Right Themselves Think Vigorous

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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

~Elgin Baylor

Topics: Definition Dictionary Greatness Jordan Look Michael Michael Jordan Say Up Will You

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Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

~Elizabeth Diller

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I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

~Elizabeth Emken

Topics: Career Checks Credible Definition Different Higher Legitimate Lifelong Million Offer Office Parachute Politicians Premise Rejecting Run Seems Something Those Up Very Way Who Worked

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By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

~Elizabeth Mcgovern

Topics: Actor Always Could Definition Each Enough Life Life Is A Lived Long Own Realise Recipe Regret Rewards Road Roads Taken You

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Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

~Elliott Abrams

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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Battery Cell Cells Challenge Chemicals Collection Combining Definition Large Large Number Little Number Safely Taking Them Very

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In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

~Emanuel Celler

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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

~Emile Durkheim

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