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• The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

  Amin Maalouf

  Unique, Identity, Elements

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• Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.

  Gayle Rubin

  Sex, Should Have, Law

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• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

  Harold Brodkey

  Real, Miracle, Events

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychics, Psychology

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• Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.

  John A. Stormer

  Loyalty, Country, Children

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• Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  War, Catholic, Harmony

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• Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Lying, Self

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• It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

  Pat Metheny

  Verbs, Fruit, Becoming

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• You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dream, Kings, Simple

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.3, Basic Books

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• A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Rich Countries, White

  Wilbur Smith (2013). “Wilbur Smith's Smashing Thrillers: Hungry as the Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice”, p.686, Pan Macmillan

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• Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.

  Edi Rama

  Our World, Pace, Changing The World

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• You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!

  Steven Moffat

  Dog, Character, People

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Ideas, Liberalism, Critique

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.276, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

  Josh McDowell

  Meaningful, Belief, Christ

  Josh McDowell (2003). “Belief Matters Leader's Guide”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Beer, Judging

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• Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Identity, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Important, Use

  Song: Pale Purple, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

  David Jenkins

  Swag, Ordinary, Language

  The Guardian, December 24, 1984.

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• Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Education, Learning, Remember

  Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub

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• Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Vices, Mediocrity, Virtue

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, December 21, 1843.

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• The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

  Stanley Milgram

  Patriotic, Soldier, Patriotism

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• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

  Albert Hadley

  Differences, Design, Cooking

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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