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• The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

  Mircea Eliade

  Way, Metaphysics, Simplest

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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• My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Successful

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

  Stephen Harper

  Men, Law, Support

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• The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

  Stephen Harper

  Practice, Community, Facts

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• And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Democracy, Minorities

  Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bob Cheney (2008). “Autobiography of Lee Harvey Oswald: My Life in My Words”, p.194, iUniverse

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• I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

  La Monte Young

  Mean, Minimalism, Minimum

  "Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds". Book by David Toop, 1995.

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• And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Government

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

  James Grant

  Numbers, People, Gold

  "Jim Grant: America Will Resolve Her Debt By Returning To The Gold Standard" by Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Giving, Innocent

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

  Bill Hybels

  Great Leadership, Great Leader, Developmental

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• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
  sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Principles, Fundamentals

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• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  Gary Bauer

  Sex, People, Married

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• You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, Race, Judging

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• If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

  Simon Sinek

  Mean, People, Greed

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.54, Penguin

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• Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

  Dave Reichert

  Offering, Years, America

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• I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Jobs, Writing, Firsts

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.

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• Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  People, Noise, Opinion

  S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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• In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain.

  Frank Zane

  Pain, Winning, Training

  "The Legend of Frank Zane: An Interview With The Man Who Achieved Physical Perfection". "Flex" Interview, www.simplyshredded.com. August 2008.

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• And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

  Benjamin Tucker

  People, Principles, Band

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Acceptance, Errors, Lexicographer

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

  Marc Bloch

  Facts, Historian, Incapable

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.40, Manchester University Press

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• Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Black

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• The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Different, Elements, Distortion

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• Taste is the feminine of genius.

  Lord Edward FitzGerald

  Genius, Taste, Feminine

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• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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