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• My definition of economic development is economic growth.

  Mark Noble

  Growth, Development, Economic

  Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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• By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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• When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

  Moby

  Animal, Research, Vegetarian

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• FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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• Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Leadership, Christian, Keys

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• There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  David Frost

  Sarcastic, Running, Government

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• Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

  George Chapman

  Mother, Ignorance, Admiration

  George Chapman, Akihiro Yamada (1975). “The Widow's Tears”, p.59, Manchester University Press

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• Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

  John Adams

  Fate, America, Self

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

  Samuel Butler

  Science, Class, Giving

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4257, Delphi Classics

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

  Candice Bergen

  Love, Life, Dream

  Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith,
  then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

  Steve Allen

  Faith, Ignorance, Religion

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

  John Adams

  Men, Law, America

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.194

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• Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.88

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• Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Political, Insanity

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• A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

  David Frost

  Class, Insulting, England

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• By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

  Scott Adams

  Practice, Risk, Management

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

  Will Wright

  Different, Sides

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• Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

  William Boyd

  Tree, World, Growing

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Doe

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Years, Names

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

  David Berman

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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