Defined Quotes - Page 5

• Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

  Alistair Begg

  Our Generation, Generations, Problem

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• In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Men, Media, Age

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• Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mean, Men, America

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Jim Crow Laws, Groups

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press

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• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Soldier, Shantaram, Endure

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.

  Vito Russo

  Taken, Character, Gay

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• I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Character, Heart

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• England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

  Kevin Ayers

  Unique, Thinking, Class

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• Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

  Peter Cundill

  Trying, Strategy, Wells

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  Kat Cole

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Kaizen, Loyal

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• I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Excellence, Stories, Love Story

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• I never wish to be easily defined.

  Franz Kafka

  Wish

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• Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Regret, Character, Defining

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  Ira Sachs

  Reality, Shifting, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfection, Leader, Individuality

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• One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by what you do or create. Jesus is a wonderful example of this. He would not allow the crowd to define Him by His considerable gifts, even though they tried to do so. Jesus always points away from Himself and His gifts and thereby wins praise for the Father. We are not our gifts. We are called to give more. Like Jesus, we are called to give ourselves. That is the real purpose behind our gifts; they are vehicles for giving the self.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Father, Real

  "Vehicles for Giving the Self: An Interview with Michael Card". Tabletalk Magazine interview, www.ligonier.org.

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• Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Speech, Corporations

  "Republicans losing their way on campaign finance reform" by Warren Rudman, www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2010.

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• One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.

  Philip K. Jason

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

  Max Lucado

  Refined

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• Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

  Gwen Harwood

  Light, Grace, Mind

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• Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Responsibility, Commitment

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.89, Penguin

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• Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

  Bob Iger

  Jobs, People, Legacy

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Thinking, Choices, Turns

  "Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

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