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• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  Barbara Deming

  Determination, Anger, Thinking

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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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. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Expression

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 21, 2011.

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• Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

  Clay Shirky

  Average, Law, Firsts

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

  Jane Asher

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

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• A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Love You, Simple

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• Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Book, Passion, Voice

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• Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Population, Generations, Next

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• Definition is the death of discovery.

  Tom Shadyac

  Discovery

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• Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, People

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• But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?

  Jonathan Evison

  Book, Writing, People

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• The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

  Eva Figes

  Race, Glowing, Males

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• Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Morning, Get Up

  Song: Out Of Habit

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• A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Courage, Spring

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.163, Image

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• A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

  Peter Drucker

  Names, Organization, Purpose

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• Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

  Leon Botstein

  Generations, Levels, Conservative

  Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”

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• My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Real, Expectations, My Favorite

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• Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Beach, Book, Fire

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• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

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• Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic,bold moves which by definition, cannot be planned.

  F. Ross Johnson

  Moving, Ultimate Success, Realizing

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• While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

  Paola Antonelli

  Artist, Designer, Responsible

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• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

  Anne Carson

  Procedures, Humans, Human Beings

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.

  Eliot Noyes

  Organization, Choices, Design

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• I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

  Charles Wang

  Thinking

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• Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

  Paula Fox

  Iron, Break

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