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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the Vicar of Christ, have but one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God?

  Pope Boniface VIII

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

  Indra Nooyi

  Leadership, People, Followers

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Issues, Unemployment

  "Colin Powell reflects on endorsing Obama in 2008". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

  Tyson Gay

  Athlete, Done, Want

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• Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

  Perry Moore

  Giving, Decision, Splits

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• No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

  Simon R. Green

  Likes, Losing, Characteristics

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.93, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.

  Lynne Truss

  Gay, Issues, Black

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• We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

  Charles Taylor

  Expression, Understanding, Identity

  Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Christian, Islamic, Law

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Presidential debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

  Luke Bryan

  Moving, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

  Ken Burns

  Past, Historical, Survival

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• I would probably list myself as mostly straight. I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know? I've never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

  John Podhoretz

  Way

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• Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mean, Different Experiences, Merit

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• Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Thinking, Years

  Sissela Bok (2010). “Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  Van Morrison

  Opportunity, Play, Jam

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• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Anatole France

  Animal, Men, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

  Tony Campolo

  Gay, Two, Issues

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• Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sorry, Needs, Relationship With God

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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