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• Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Creation, Substitutes

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.91, Penguin

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• I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Doe

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• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

  Harvey Fierstein

  Silence, Way, Lifetime

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• Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

  Gianni Vattimo

  May, Modern, Epoch

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• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

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• If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

  James Cook

  Insanity, Different, Expecting

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• A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Believe, Philosophical, Abortion

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• In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is being asked to live in a furniture exhibit in the British Museum. The other partner remains convinced that he or she is forced to contend with the human version of Hurricane Gilbert.

  Margo Kaufman

  Museums, Two, Arrows

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• From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

  George H. W. Bush

  Successful, Night, Together

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• You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self, Interest, Clear

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Communion with God”, p.109, Penguin

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• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

  Aristotle

  Hero, Tragedy, Excess

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• The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

  Steve McCurry

  Forget, Forget It

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• Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Nice, Character, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  Miranda Richardson

  Jobs, Stars, Feel Better

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview with James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Memories, Together, Remember Something

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• The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

  Peter Drucker

  Resources, Enterprise, Capable

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.11, Routledge

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• The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Substance, Hebrew

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• Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of these God’s children, and why we believe that the new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

  John Hope Bryant

  Determination, Self, Today

  "Defining Financial Literacy in a New Economic Age" by John Hope Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2013.

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• There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'

  John Green

  Mean, Thinking, Boys

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• Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are usually examples to identify and which fit the definition of a pioneer: "one who goes before, showing others the way to follow." Some, if not all, made great sacrifices to leave behind comfort and ease and respond to that clarion call of their newly found faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Memories, Sacrifice, Lines

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• But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Self, Voice, Political

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• No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secret, Depth, World

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• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

  Bill Veeck

  Team, Individual Effort, Games

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• Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

  Richard Summerbell

  Art, Journalism, Representing

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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