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• Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

  David Brooks

  Distance, Humility, Thinking About You

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

  Jim Rohn

  Simple, Doctors, Apples

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• The definition of success is total preparation.

  George Allen

  Preparation, Definition Of Success

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• If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.

  John Adams

  Kings, Men, Voice

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Political, Insanity

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• Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

  Christopher Morley

  Reality, Noble, Term

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• Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Art, Vacation

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• Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Pity, Plus

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

  Paul Johnson

  Eye, Views, History

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• Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

  Francis George

  Law, Justice, People

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

  Cillian Murphy

  Liars, Intelligent, Compassion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

  Carolyn Warner

  Winning, Mind, My Favorite

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• Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

  Jim James

  Ideas, Magic, Magic Of Life

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

  Esther Dyson

  Problem, Resources, Scarce

  "Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• ...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

  Alben W. Barkley

  Jobs, Want, Republican

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• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  Susan Faludi

  Self Esteem, Believe, Feminism

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• A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

  Fred Brooks

  Men, Dumb, Syntax

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Study, Realizing

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• One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Growing Up, Self, Challenges

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• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Punishment, Errors

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• A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Technology, Progress

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• There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Mountain, Needs, Defeated

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• Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, People, Perfect

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