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• The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, White, Black

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

  Tom Holt

  Immortal, Died

  "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.

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• Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Innocence, Made

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• Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

  Edward H. Levi

  Art, Law, Use

  Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Thinking, Way, Different

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

  Tony Levin

  Mean, People, Accepting

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• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Gilbert Adair

  Past, Principles, Batteries

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• Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

  Abraham Verghese

  Home, Where You Are, Wanted

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

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• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  A. R. Ammons

  Vision, Way, Prison

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Thinking, Classic

  Alan Bennett (2014). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Political, Speech

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Hype, Giving

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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.

  Tori Spelling

  Silly, Home, Black And White

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

  Pope Francis

  Literary Genre, Speech, Figures

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.17, A&C Black

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• God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

  Ayn Rand

  Faith, Witty, Religious

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.335, Penguin

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

  Francis Chan

  What Matters, Purpose, Straightforward

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.93, David C Cook

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• I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

  Mark Knopfler

  Reality, Would Be, Asks

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Should Have, Giving, Revolutionary

  Vladimir Lenin (2010). “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

  Jonathan Swift

  Style, Literature

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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Intelligent, Men

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• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Stupid, Science

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Marriage, Engineering, Judging

  "To Protect Marriage" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. July 22, 2004.

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