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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Men, Fake

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Resistance, Sabotage

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.18, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

  Brent Weeks

  Obedience, Said, Request

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Monsters, Desperation

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

  Richelle Mead

  Wise, Men, Answers

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• And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

  James Agee

  Cancer, Sea, Common

  James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House

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• Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book XIII, 1078a.33,

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• The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

  Jim C. Hines

  Definition Of Beauty, Our Lives

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Thinking, Safety

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Wise, Ocean

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• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

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• The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids.
  Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs.
  The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive.
  It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Baby, Children

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• We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

  Catherine Bertini

  Food, Mean, Needs

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• Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

  Arianna Huffington

  Graduation, Stress, Heart

  Arianna Huffington's Commencement Address at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, www.smith.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Graduation, Integrity, Passion

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• Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Happiness, Self, Break Out

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Home, Humor

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• Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Love Is, Athena

  "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

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• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Marriage, Evil, Nuclear Families

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• I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Jazz, Monk

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• ...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Mean, Justice

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Politics

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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• ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, People, Catholic

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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