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• I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Order, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It can be the level of sexual assault is relatively low. What was described on the plane by Ms. Leeds, it would very likely satisfy that definition. She said that he reached under her skirt and fondled and groped her. That type of thing would satisfy the definition for sexual assault.

  Megyn Kelly

  Levels, Skirts, Lows

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

  Sam Brownback

  Government, Law, Constitution

  Senate Confirmation Hearings - Day 1, www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Character, Expression

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

  M. Scott Peck

  Essence, People, Growing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism".

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas, Democracy, Trying

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• There's a lot of definitions flying around of what we mean when we say fake news. And there's also a lot of pitfalls and I think some misguided recommendations that are out there about what Facebook and Twitter and the others should and shouldn't do. It's very difficult and I, you know, recommend sort of very thoughtful slow going for everyone.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mean, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.

  Vivian Schiller

  Air, Fake, Video

  Source: www.npr.org

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• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Acting, Lines, Improvisation

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.

  Karl Rove

  Protection, States, Ought

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as "two or three gathered in my name" is not still the best way.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Children, Thinking, Stranger

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.

  David C. Driskell

  Fun, Real, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Suicidal, Mean, Evil

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Views, Facts, Groups

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.

  Paulo Freire

  Mean, Violence, Excess

  Paulo Freire (2013). “Education for Critical Consciousness”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

  Anuj

  Crowns, Definition Of Leadership, Persons

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• Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Time, Men, Discipline

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• To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Democracy, Principles, Politics

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• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

  John le Carre

  Country, Philosophy, Years

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• It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fall, Numbers, Economics

  "Economics As a Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, McGraw-Hill, (p. 97), 1988.

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• Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.

  Keith Devlin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

  Emile Durkheim

  Exercise, Personality, Ratios

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Class, Skills, Female

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