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• It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

  Nick Hornby

  Crazy, Writing, Looking Good

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• Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.

  Maureen Johnson

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Thinking

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• In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Soul

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• I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

  Whitley Strieber

  Real, Use, Fundamentals

  "Whitley Strieber,‘Communion’ Author, Describes Bizarre Encounter With Mystery Man" by Lee Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 07, 2011.

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• By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

  George Tenet

  Enemy, United States, Deny

  Remarks at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004.

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• My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Goal, Creative

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• Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Blessing, Perspective, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 26, 2015

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• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

  Gijs de Vries

  Terrorism, Stills

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• You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Meditation

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• One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you can do yoga or make homemade beer or speak a decent amount of Spanish. Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is when any one element is threatened.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Yoga, Beer, Self

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• When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

  Criss Jami

  Motivational, Regret, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

  Maya Lin

  War, Artist, Modern

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• Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

  Brit Marling

  Girl, Two, Week

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• I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

  Mizuki Nomura

  People, Appreciate, Judging

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• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  David Whyte

  Mainstream Society, Interesting, Quality

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• Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

  Toyin Odutola

  Reality, Creating, Black

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• The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Independent, Knowing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

  Poul Anderson

  Government, Organization, People

  Poul Anderson (2014). “The Avatar”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

  Brian Aldiss

  Confused, Fiction, Gothic

  Brian Wilson Aldiss (1995). “The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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• When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.

  David Blankenhorn

  Mother, Children, Men

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, May

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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• The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand.

  Eben Pagan

  Next Level, Levels, Next

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• It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.

  Vance Palmer

  Art, Character, Wind

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