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• A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Classification

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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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• He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

  Peter L. Berger

  Reality, Sticks, Chance

  "The Social Construction of Reality". Book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966.

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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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• That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

  E. C. Bentley

  Care, Worthwhile, Damn

  "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.

  Dave Galanter

  Roots, Giving, Choices

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• A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

  Raymond Williams

  Education, Class, Training

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• If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Reading, Athlete

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

  Bell Hooks

  Justice, Would Be, Citizens

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

  Jean-Marc Barr

  Thinking, Important, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

  Anne Sweeney

  Commitment, Momentum, Television

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• Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sleep, Singing, Watches

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

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• What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Home, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Type, Command, Particular

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs". Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 19, p. 21, 1967.

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• Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

  Howard Dean

  Song, Religious, Holiday

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

  Howard Dean

  Iraq, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

  William James

  Truth, Believe, Sound

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Moving, Facts

  Source: daggy.name

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• I would prefer to use a very inclusive definition of the working class. I'd like to include all of those people who are, if they're not exploited by an immediate employer over them, they're exploited by the system and therefore have a cause to want to change the system. Having a very inclusive definition of the working class creates a great opportunity for organizing people.

  Howard Zinn

  Opportunity, Class, People

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• I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Two, Creating

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

  Atul Gawande

  Mean, Good Day, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Ignorant, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Spiritual, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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