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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Categories

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• If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Government, Evil People

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• For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

  Edwin Catmull

  Creativity, Problem, Broads

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

  Ernst Mayr

  Example, Doe, Memes

  Ernst Mayr (2007). “What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

  Dan T. Cathy

  Biblical, Supportive, Guilty

  "Dan Cathy, Chick-Fil-A President, On Anti-Gay Stance: ‘Guilty As Charged’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sweet, Strong, Mistake

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.198, Macmillan

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• I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

  Tony Windsor

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  "Tony Windsor looks forward to doing a deal". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2010.

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• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Character, Dark

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

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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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• Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

  Garry Kasparov

  Smell, Weakness, Lasts

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Greatness, Expectations

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• Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Games, Play

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• My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Simplicity, Harmony

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Heart, People

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• Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Would Be, Deeds

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  Love, Girl, Boys

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• I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.

  Matt Cullen

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Unity, Definition Of Beauty

  "On the Principles of Genial Criticism". Essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814.

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• Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Home, Library

  Larry McMurtry (2008). “Books: A Memoir”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts it's about taking people on a journey, being able to involve me completely-whether you're singing a song, whether it's in the theater, whether you're dancing-if you can make me forget I'm sitting in a seat, that's my definition of genius.

  Russell Crowe

  Song, Art, Journey

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• The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Tasks, Analogies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Excellence, Trying

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