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• In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Culture, Way

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy

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• My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Eye, Years

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• A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Past, Thorough Understanding

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• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Tests, New Words

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• We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Latin, War, America

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• If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Greatness, Important, Want

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Littles, Madness, Complicated

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• No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secret, Depth, World

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• Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.

  Carl Icahn

  Stupid, Two, Numbers

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• That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

  John Landgraf

  Groups, Stories, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fall, Sky, Space

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Art, Issues, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

  William Monahan

  Character, Interesting, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, People

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• One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

  Stephen Covey

  Insanity, Different, Results

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.495, Mango Media Inc.

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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• My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

  Orson Welles

  Definition Of Success, Thrown

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• Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Law, Ongoing

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• I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Opposites, Care

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• My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

  David Mamet

  Chicago, Helping, Yeah

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.

  Mary T. Barra

  Innovative, Customers, Providing

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• There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Two

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• With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

  Jay Leno

  School, Looks, Tvs

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