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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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• 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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• The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agency, Tasks

  "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Believe, Government, America

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• The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

  Paul Saffo

  Social Network, Excluded, Values

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• Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

  Adam Gopnik

  Light, Paper, Knows

  "Man of Fetters" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2008.

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• You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

  Tabitha Soren

  Years, Mtv, News

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, Government

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• You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

  Mark Lawrence

  Frozen, Alive, Moments

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Apology

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• Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.

  Jason Evert

  Past, Now And The Future, Done

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.122, Totus Tuus Press

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• A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

  Peter Drucker

  Names, Organization, Purpose

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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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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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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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• Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

  Scott Cunningham

  Practice, Magic, Use

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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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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• Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspiration, Moments

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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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• I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

  Simon Van Booy

  Memories, Disappointment, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

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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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• Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

  Jim Horning

  Real, World, Tribes

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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 really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

  Serena Williams

  Fall, Winning, Thinking

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