Definition Quotes
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
Charles L. Grant
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Normal?! What the heck is normal? Healthy is, I guess, my definition of it. Apparently.
Esther Earl
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The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.
Bruce Bawer
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We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
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In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
Ernst Mayr
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
Rumi
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I have a definition of success.
Benjamin Zander
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Confucius
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I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.
Nick McDonell
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An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
Edward Glaeser
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Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are - they don’t get to change the definition.
Benjamin Carson
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Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.
Wilbur L. Creech
