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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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• My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

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• We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Limits

  "State of the Union 2014: Obama calls for 'year of action'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.

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• It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

  Scott Weiland

  Beautiful, Men, Sick

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To me good rock 'n' roll also encompasses other things, like Hank Williams and Charlie Mingus and a lot of things that aren't strictly defined as rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

  Lester Bangs

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

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• When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Father, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 15, 2014

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• I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.

  Xavi

  Football, Eye, Winning

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• I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

  Bill Frist

  Men, Western Values, Unions

  "Frist Opposes Gay Marriage". www.nytimes.com. June 30, 2003.

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• Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Dance, Appreciation, Art

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• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

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• In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

  Victor Cousin

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Secret

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• Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

  Dion Fortune

  Use, Superstitions, Forgotten

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Training & Work of an Initiate”, p.88, Weiser Books

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• Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

  Shirin Neshat

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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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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