Definition Quotes
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A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.
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Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
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We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
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As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?
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The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
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The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
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There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
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For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
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My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
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Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
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Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.
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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
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Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
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A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
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I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
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Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.
