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• I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Letting Go, Book, Exercise

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

  Keith Rabois

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Video, Used, Crap

  "Quentin Tarantino - The "Inglourious Basterds" Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  Justice, United States, Racist

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• I would prefer to use a very inclusive definition of the working class. I'd like to include all of those people who are, if they're not exploited by an immediate employer over them, they're exploited by the system and therefore have a cause to want to change the system. Having a very inclusive definition of the working class creates a great opportunity for organizing people.

  Howard Zinn

  Opportunity, Class, People

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Important, Actors

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

  Vance Gilbert

  Ribs, Gestures, Able

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• 'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

  William James

  Truth, Believe, Sound

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Ignorant, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.

  Dave Ulrich

  Mean, Missing, Effort

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Thinking, America

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

  Aaron Levie

  Years, Use, Lasts

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• It doesn't matter if you're talking to a communist or a fascist if you say, do you want a good future for your kids? Well they're all going to say yes. Well do you think that money should be spent efficiently? Yes. Al of these things, everyone agrees on them but the way that we discuss them and the language that we use we hold different definitions for.

  Dan Mangan

  Kids, Thinking, Talking

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• I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

  Talal Asad

  Genealogy, Said, Criticize

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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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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• My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Spiritual, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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