An Alibi (n.) is all that televised images of distant suffering furnish, powerless to change anything.
An Alibi (n.) was the light the house-physician left on for the first time ever when he slipped out on duty — so the chief would think him at home.
An Alibi (n.) was prepared daily by one obsessional young man for murders he never committed — living out his childhood impulse to kill his over-severe father.
An Alibi (n.) is what we provide ourselves by leaving ethical situations in a half light, not unintentionally, to escape decision.
Causal explanation (n.) is insidious: it makes one say 'of course it had to happen like that', when one should say it may have happened like that, and in many other ways.
Causal explanation (n.) is only a description of the same event in other words: to say an organism needs food is only to say that it is food.
Defense (n.) is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Defense (n.) is always plagued by the problem of how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Defense (n.) is the planning of an attack, just as attack is the secret of defense.
Defense (n.) is that wherein invincibility lies... the possibility of victory is in the attack.
A Definition (n.) is the bedrock of clear thinking.
A Definition (n.) is what critics look for in Marx, who explains instead: fixed, cut-and-dried definitions valid for all time are exactly what a changing world denies.
A Definition (n.) is a tautology showing internal relations between its two terms.
A Definition (n.) may substitute one sign for another and still matter, since its significance lies in its application, its importance for life.
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