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• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Heart, Cutting, Years

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

  Douglas Adams

  Humorous, Profound, Doubt

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.158, Del Rey

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• Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

  Roméo Dallaire

  Struggle, Ego, Subterfuge

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• We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

  Tori Spelling

  Family, Born

  Tori Spelling (2008). “sTORI Telling”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Causes, Life Is

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.373, Random House

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

  Pat Conroy

  Lucky, Treasure, Fortune

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.273, Open Road Media

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• I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  Oscar Wilde

  Animal, Men, Definitions

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

  Tablo

  Expectations, Secret, Age

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• Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

  Karen Kingsbury

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When you look at me that way, I feel so beautiful." "You are beautiful." He signed deep in his chest. His hands slid up and down her arms, caressing her roughly. "So damned beautiful." "So are you." She put a hand to his bare chest, tracing the defined ridges of his musculature. "Like a diamond. Hard and gleaming, and cut with all these exquisite facets. Inside...pure, brilliant fire.

  Tessa Dare

  Beautiful, Cutting, Fire

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• Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.

  Derek Landy

  People, Persons

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• In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

  Neil Strauss

  Girlfriend, Facts, Paradox

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books

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• Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

  Alice Munro

  Believe, People, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Aug 28, 2016

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• If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, Country, Government

  Howard Zinn (1990). “Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology”, Perennial

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• I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

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• We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four

  Pittacus Lore

  Past, Four, Our Past

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• Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

  Louise Penny

  Powerful, Simple, People

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.76, Macmillan

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• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Accomplishment, People, Belief

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Police, Debtors

  "The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic". Book by Mark Levin, August 13, 2013.

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• He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

  Julian Barnes

  Grief, Clouds, Wind

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• But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.

  Veronica Roth

  Loyalty, Sibling, Choices

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• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

  John Peter Zenger

  Leadership, Vision, Weakness

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Freedom, Believe

  Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)

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• Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

  Kate Braverman

  Men, Biographies

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