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• Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

  Luce Irigaray

  Plato, Philosophy, Real

  Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press

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• An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

  Irving Kristol

  Men, Intellectual, May

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Skills, Miracle

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

  Nick Rahall

  Unique, Wilderness, Absence

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• For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in a chat room on the Internet. Brands are sponges for content, for images, for fleeting feelings. They become psychological concepts held in the minds of the public, where they may stay forever. As such you can’t entirely control a brand. At best you can only guide and influence it.

  Scott Bedbury

  Forever, Feelings, Mind

  Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (2003). “A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”, p.39, Penguin

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Freedom, Responsibility, Caring

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• What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating.

  Paul Dirac

  Art, People, Appreciate

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.908, Cambridge University Press

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• It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

  Marvin Olasky

  Jobs, Way

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• I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

  L'Wren Scott

  Girlfriend, Want

  "L'Wren Scott's Fashion Company Was $6 Million In Debt Before Her Death" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. March 18, 2014.

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• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

  G. M. Trevelyan

  People, Politics, Might

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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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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